2017-10-09Zeitschriftenartikel
Relatedness of wildlife and livestock avian isolates of the nosocomial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii to lineages spread in hospitals worldwide
Wilharm, Gottfried; Skiebe, Evelyn; Higgins, Paul G.; Poppel, Marie T.; Blaschke, Ulrike; Leser, Sarah; Heider, Christine; Heindorf, Magdalena; Brauner, Paul; Jäckel, Udo; Böhland, Karin; Cuny, Christiane; Lopinska, Andzelina; Kaminski, Piotr; Kasprzak, Mariusz; Bochenski, Marcin; Ciebiera, Olaf; Tobolka, Marcin; Layer, Franziska; Bender, Jennifer K.; Fuchs, Stephan; Semmler, Torsten; Pfeifer, Yvonne; Jerzak, Leszek
The natural habitats and potential reservoirs of the nosocomial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii are poorly defined. Here, we put forth and tested the hypothesis of avian reservoirs of A. baumannii. We screened tracheal ...