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. 2008 Nov;52(11):4205-6.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.01121-08. Epub 2008 Sep 2.

Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates expressing the blaOXA-23 gene associated with ISAba4 in Belgium

Pierre Bogaerts, Gaelle Cuzon, Thierry Naas, Caroline Bauraing, Ariane Deplano, Bénédicte Lissoir, Patrice Nordmann, Youri Glupczynski

Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates expressing the blaOXA-23 gene associated with ISAba4 in Belgium

Pierre Bogaerts et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008 Nov.
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FIG. 1.
Genetic organization of the three β-lactamase genes found in A. baumannii GIL1. (A) ISAba4-blaOXA-23. (B) ISAba1-blaADC-39. (C) blaOXA-69. Horizontal arrows represent open reading frames and their transcriptional orientations. Promoters brought by the insertion sequences are indicated by small vertical arrows.
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