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Volume 17, Number 9—September 2011
Dispatch

Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Veterinary Clinics, Germany

Sabrina ZordanComments to Author , Ellen Prenger-Berninghoff, Reinhard Weiss, Tanny van der Reijden, Peterhans van den Broek, Georg Baljer, and Lenie Dijkshoorn
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany (S. Zordan, E. Prenger-Berninghoff, R. Weiss, G. Baljer); Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (T. van der Reijden, P. van den Broek, L. Dijkshoorn)

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Figure 1

Computer-assisted cluster analysis of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis fingerprints of 53 Acinetobacter baumannii and 2 Acinetobacter spp. pittii isolates. COL 20820 was used as the reference standard for normalization of the digitized gels (14).

Figure 1. Computer-assisted cluster analysis of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis fingerprints of 53 Acinetobacter baumannii and 2 Acinetobacter spp. pittii isolates. COL 20820 was used as the reference standard for normalization of the digitized gels (14).

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