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Raffaela Bressan
Researcher at University of Trieste
Publications - 14
Citations - 441
Raffaela Bressan is an academic researcher from University of Trieste. The author has contributed to research in topics: Acinetobacter baumannii & Enterococcus faecium. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 13 publications receiving 388 citations.
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Standardization and Interlaboratory Reproducibility Assessment of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis-Generated Fingerprints of Acinetobacter baumannii
Harald Seifert,Lucilla Dolzani,Raffaela Bressan,Tanny J. K. van der Reijden,Beppie van Strijen,Danuta Stefanik,Herre Heersma,Lenie Dijkshoorn +7 more
TL;DR: The standard procedure enabled us to generate PFGE fingerprints of epidemiologically related A. baumannii strains at different locations with sufficient interlaboratory reproducibility to set up an electronic database to monitor the geographic spread of epidemic strains.
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Evaluation of a genotyping method based on the ospA gene to detect Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in multiple samples of lyme borreliosis patients.
Romina Floris,Giulia Menardi,Raffaela Bressan,Giusto Trevisan,Simona Ortenzio,Emanuela Rorai,Marina Cinco +6 more
TL;DR: In this study Borrelia DNA could be detected by PCR in at least one specimen of each patient, except in one case of neuroborreliosis (NB); blood samples gave the highest sensitivity in all patient groups.
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Sub-MIC effects of a proline-rich antibacterial peptide on clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii.
Lucilla Dolzani,Annalisa Milan,Marco Scocchi,Cristina Lagatolla,Raffaela Bressan,Monica Benincasa +5 more
TL;DR: Bac7(1-35) is internalized into A. baumannii and is able to inhibit biofilm formation and bacterial motility, without inducing resistance, as well as mimicking a common condition during antibiotic treatment.
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Epidemic Dissemination of a Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Clone Carrying armA Two Years After Its First Isolation in an Italian Hospital
Annalisa Milan,Linda Furlanis,Franca Cian,Raffaela Bressan,Roberto Luzzati,Cristina Lagatolla,Maria Luisa Deiana,Anna Knezevich,Enrico Angelo Tonin,Lucilla Dolzani +9 more
TL;DR: The dissemination of a carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) strain in a university hospital in Northeast Italy is described and the need to adopt strict infection control measures also when CRAB isolation appears to be a sporadic event is highlighted.
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pKBuS13, a KPC-2-encoding plasmid from Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 833, carrying Tn4401b inserted into an Xer site-specific recombination locus
Luigi Garbari,Marina Busetti,Lucilla Dolzani,Vincenzo Petix,Anna Knezevich,Raffaela Bressan,Fabrizia Gionechetti,Enrico Angelo Tonin,Cristina Lagatolla +8 more
TL;DR: The first detection of a Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase 2 (KPC-2) strain belonging to sequence type 833, collected in an Italian hospital from a patient coming from South America, suggests that despite the absence of tra genes and the instability under nonselective conditions, the circulation of pKBuS13 or of analogous plasmids might be wider than reported.