The First Saudi Study Investigating the Plasmid-borne Aminoglycoside and Sulfonamide Resistance among Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates Genotyped by RAPD-PCR: the Declaration of a Novel Allelic Variant Called aac(6ʹ)-SL and Three Novel Mutations in the sul1 Gene in the Acinetobacter Plasmid (s)

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