Xuyang Gong

Clonal patient-to-patient spread is associated with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in a Chinese pediatric hospital: an integrated phenotype–genotype–PFGE surveillance study

Pediatric multidrug-resistant A. baumannii infections in this hospital were most consistent with patient-to-patient dissemination of a dominant resistant clone rather than with contamination from the hospital-setting or medical-waste reservoirs sampled here, although the small environmental sample cannot definitively e...