A 12-year epidemiological study of Acinetobacter baumannii from blood culture isolates in a single tertiary-care hospital using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based open reading frame typing.
Yuji FujikuraTakaaki HamamotoAtsushi YukiAyumi SampeiNozomi IchieKazuho TakamizawaSakika NomuraYusuke SerizawaTomohiro OhnoHironori TsujimotoPublished in: Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE (2022)
POT is a simple and suitable method for molecular epidemiological monitoring and can show the introduction, outbreak, and subsequent transition of an epidemic clone of