Genome Sequence of a Tigecycline-Resistant Clinical Isolate of Acinetobacter baumannii Strain AB031 Obtained from a Bloodstream Infection

Affiliations

Peter C Loewen et al. Genome Announc. 2014.

. 2014 Oct 16;2(5):e01036-14.

doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01036-14.

¹ Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
² ayush.kumar@umanitoba.ca.

Abstract

We report here the 3.8-Mbp genome sequence of a blood isolate of Acinetobacter baumannii strain AB031.

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