Twelve isolates of XDRAB were derived from the bacterial specimens of patients from the critical care units, internal medicine, and emergency departments at the First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College from 2018 to 2020 (Chengdu, China). Standard laboratory methods and ATB New (BioMérieux, France) were used to identify these isolates, which were also confirmed by PCR of the genes 16S rRNA and blaOXA-51 (Chang et al., 2015 (link)); Chromobacterium violaceum 026 (CV026) was purchased from Biobw (Beijing, China); A. baumannii ATCC 17978 and Escherichia coli DH5a were preserved in our laboratory.
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