A 48-year-old woman from Mumbai with a nosocomial urinary tract infection is found to have a carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. The organism shows resistance to imipenem and meropenem but remains susceptible to colistin. Which is the most appropriate confirmatory investigation to identify the mechanism of carbapenem resistance?

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