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Multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in intensive care units in Greece  A.N. Maniatis, S. Pournaras, S. Orkopoulou, P.T. Tassios, N.J. Legakis  Clinical Microbiology and Infection  Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages 547-553 (June 2003) DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00558.x Copyright © 2003 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Dendrogram of percentage similarity of banding patterns generated by PFGE separation of ApaI macrorestriction fragments of genomic DNA of 69 A. baumannii isolates. The strains were clustered with GelCompar software at the 80% level of genetic similarity by the method of upgma. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2003 9, 547-553DOI: (10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00558.x) Copyright © 2003 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions