First report of extensively-drug-resistant Proteus mirabilis isolate carrying plasmid-mediated blaNDM-1 in a Tunisian intensive care unit

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 906-909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lamia Kanzari ◽  
Sana Ferjani ◽  
Mabrouka Saidani ◽  
Zeineb Hamzaoui ◽  
Ali Jendoubi ◽  
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Author(s):  
Aymen Mabrouk ◽  
Yosra Chebbi ◽  
Anis Raddaoui ◽  
Asma Krir ◽  
Amen Allah Messadi ◽  
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AbstractExtensively drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (XDR-Ab), has emerged as an important pathogen in several outbreaks. The aim of our study was to investigate the eventual genetic relatedness of XDR-Ab strains recovered from burn patients and environment sites in the largest Tunisian Burn Intensive Care Unit (BICU) and to characterize β-lactamase encoding genes in these strains. Between March 04th, 2019 and April 22nd, 2019 an outbreak of XDR-Ab was suspected. Environmental screening was done. All isolates were screened by simplex PCR for β-lactamase genes. Genetic relatedness was determined by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of ApaI-digested total DNA. During the study period, 21 strains of A. baumannii were isolated in burn patients, mainly in blood culture (n = 7) and central vascular catheter (n = 6). All strains were susceptible to colistin but resistant to imipenem (n = 23), ciprofloxacin (n = 23), amikacin (n = 22), tigecyclin (n = 5) and rifampicin (n = 4). The blaOXA-51-like, blaOXA23, and blaADC genes were present in all strains. These resistance determinants were associated with blaPER-1 in 10 strains. The ISAba1 was inserted upstream of blaOXA-23 in all isolates. PFGE revealed two major clusters A (n = 11) and B (n = 5). This is the first description in Tunisia of clonally related PER-1 producing XDR-Ab in burn patients with probable environmental origin.


2018 ◽  
Vol Volume 11 ◽  
pp. 2187-2197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delia Muntean ◽  
Monica Licker ◽  
Florin Horhat ◽  
Victor Dumitrașcu ◽  
Dorel Săndesc ◽  
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