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Carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii, Algeria

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This work was funded mostly by a grant from the INSERM (U914) and by grants from the European Community (TROCAR, HEALTH-F3-2008-223031) and from the Ministère de l’Education Nationale et de la Recherche (UPRES-EA3539), Université Paris XI, France.

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  1. Laboratoire “Antibiotiques-Antifongiques”, Université Abou Bekr Belkaïd, BP 119, 13000, Tlemcen, Algeria

    M. Drissi & Z. Baba Ahmed

  2. Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, INSERM U914 “Emerging Resistance to Antibiotics”, Assistance Publique/Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine and Université Paris-Sud, Hôpital de Bicêtre, 94275, Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

    L. Poirel, P. D. Mugnier & P. Nordmann

  3. Service de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène, Hôpital de Bicêtre, 78 rue de Général Leclerc, 94275, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Cedex, France

    L. Poirel

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Drissi, M., Poirel, L., Mugnier, P.D. et al. Carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii, Algeria. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 29, 1457–1458 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-010-1011-2

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