Population dynamics of an acinetobacter baumannii clonal complex during colonization of patients

• Main Authors: Wen, Hanchun, Wang, Ke, Liu, Yang, Tay, Martin, Lauro, Federico M., Huang, Hong, Wu, Huayu, Liang, Hongjie, Ding, Yichen, Givskov, Michael, Chen, Yiqiang, Yang, Liang
• Other Authors: Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Microbiology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100431; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25736
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as one of the leading pathogens causing hospital-acquired infection. The success of A. baumannii as a pathogen has to a large extent been attributed to its capacity to remodel its genome. Several major epidemic clonal complexes of A. baumannii spread across differ...