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Volume 13, Number 4—April 2007
Letter

Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, Russia

Thierry Naas*Comments to Author , Serge Kernbaum†, Sophie Allali†, and Patrice Nordmann*
Author affiliations: *Hôpital de Bicêtre, K.-Bicêtre, France; †American Hospital of Paris, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France;

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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of ApaI restricted analysis of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates. Lane 1, A. baumannii AMA-1 from France (4); lanes 2 and 3, A. baumannii IST-1 and A. baumannii IST-2 from Turkey (4); lane 4, A. baumannii isolate from Belgium (4); and lane 5, A. baumannii MOS-1 from Russia (current study). Numbers on the right side of the figure represent the sizes in kb. M, lambda ladder.

Figure. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of ApaI restricted analysis of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates. Lane 1, A. baumannii AMA-1 from France (4); lanes 2 and 3, A. baumannii IST-1 and A. baumannii IST-2 from Turkey (4); lane 4, A. baumannii isolate from Belgium (4); and lane 5, A. baumannii MOS-1 from Russia (current study). Numbers on the right side of the figure represent the sizes in kb. M, lambda ladder.

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