Diversity in the Major Polysaccharide Antigen of Acinetobacter Baumannii Assessed by DNA Sequencing, and Development of a Molecular Serotyping Scheme

• Dalong Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dalong Hu, Bin Liu

  Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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• Bin Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dalong Hu, Bin Liu

  Affiliations TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, The Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China

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• Lenie Dijkshoorn,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Lei Wang,

  Affiliations TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, The Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip, Tianjin, China

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• Peter R. Reeves

  * E-mail: peter.reeves@sydney.edu.au

  Affiliation School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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