Characterisation of ST25 NDM-1-producing Acinetobacter spp. strains leading the increase in NDM-1 emergence in Argentina

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Applied Biotechnology Studies, Department of Biological Science, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California, USA.
• ² National/Regional Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance (NRL), Servicio Antimicrobianos, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas, ANLIS 'Dr Carlos G. Malbrán', Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ³ Departamento de Desarrollo Biotecnología, Instituto de Higiene, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• ⁴ Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR, CONICET-UNR), Rosario, Argentina; Área Biofísica, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina.
• ⁵ Research Service and GRECC, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
• ⁶ The Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
• ⁷ Center for Applied Biotechnology Studies, Department of Biological Science, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California, USA. Electronic address: msramirez@fullerton.edu.