Biotypes, Serovars and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates

1996 ◽  
Vol 284 (4) ◽  
pp. 550-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murilo Gomes Oliveira ◽  
Kinue Irino ◽  
Tânia Mara Ibelli Vaz ◽  
Célia Rodrigues GonÇalves ◽  
Carlos Emílio Levy
MethodsX ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 101031
Author(s):  
Mojtaba Moosavian ◽  
Khadijeh Ahmadi ◽  
Saeed Shoja ◽  
Jalal Mardaneh ◽  
Fatemeh Shahi ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 338-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas K.W. Ling ◽  
Chun Mei Ying ◽  
Ching Ching Lee ◽  
Zhi Kai Liu

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Higgins ◽  
J. Z.-M. Chan ◽  
H. Seifert ◽  
M. J. Pallen ◽  
A. D. Millard

The development of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is of serious concern in the hospital setting. Here, we report draft genome sequences of 11 A. baumannii isolates that were isolated from a single patient over a 65-day period, during which time the isolates exhibited increased antimicrobial resistance.


2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 6267-6271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni Tien ◽  
Bang-Jau You ◽  
Hui-Lan Chang ◽  
Hsiu-Shen Lin ◽  
Chin-Yi Lee ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThis study was conducted to compare the prevalences of antimicrobial resistance profiles of clinical isolates in theAcinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumanniicomplex from sterile and nonsterile sites and to further study the relationship of antimicrobial resistance profiles and genospecies by amplified rRNA gene restriction analysis (ARDRA). A total of 1,381 isolates were tested with 12 different antibiotics to show their antimicrobial susceptibility profiles. A total of 205 clinical isolates were further analyzed by ARDRA of the intergenic spacer (ITS) region of the 16S-23S rRNA gene. It was found that the overall percentage of isolates from nonsterile sites (urine, sputum, pus, or catheter tip) that were resistant to the 12 antibiotics tested was significantly higher than that of isolates from sterile sites (cerebrospinal fluid [CSF], ascites fluid, and bloodstream) (46% versus 22%;P< 0.05). After ARDRA, it was found that 97% of the 62 isolates resistant to all antibiotics tested were theA. baumanniigenospecies, which was identified in only 31% of the isolates susceptible to all antibiotics tested. More genospecies diversity was identified in the isolates susceptible to all antibiotics tested, including genospecies of 13TU (34%), genotype 3 (29%), andA. calcoaceticus(5%). Furthermore, as 91% (10/11) of the isolates from CSF were susceptible to all antibiotics tested, theA. calcoaceticus-A. baumanniicomplex isolates with multidrug resistance could be less invasive than the more susceptible isolates. This study also indicated current emergence of carbapenem-, fluoroquinolone-, aminoglycoside-, and cephalosporin-resistantA. calcoaceticus-A. baumanniicomplex isolates in Taiwan.


2012 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. PAGANO ◽  
A. F. MARTINS ◽  
A. B. M. P. MACHADO ◽  
J. BARIN ◽  
A. L. BARTH

SUMMARYOver the last decade, Acinetobacter baumannii resistant to carbapenems has emerged in many medical centres and is commonly associated with high morbidity and mortality. We investigated potential mechanisms contributing to antimicrobial resistance of 58 clinical isolates of A. baumannii collected during a prolonged city-wide outbreak in five different hospitals in southern Brazil. The integrase gene was detected in 51 (87·9%) isolates of which 36 harboured class 2 integrons alone and 14 had both class 1 and 2 integrons; all carbapenem-resistant isolates displayed class 2 integrons. ISAba1 was found upstream of blaOXA-23-like only in isolates resistant to carbapenems; however, ISAba1 upstream of blaOXA-51-like was present in both susceptible and resistant isolates. This is the first report of a high prevalence of class 2 integrons in A. baumannii in southern Brazil. Moreover, our study suggests that ISAba1/blaOXA-51-like alone is insufficient to confer resistance to carbapenems.


Author(s):  
Maghsoud Kafshnouchi ◽  
Marzieh Safari ◽  
Amir Khodavirdipour ◽  
Abbas Bahador ◽  
Seyed Hamid Hashemi ◽  
...  

Abstract Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacterium found in most places, especially in clinics and hospitals, and an important agent of nosocomial infections. The presence of class D enzymes such as OXA-type carbapenemases in A. baumannii is proven to have a key function in resistance to carbapenem. The aim of the current study is to determine the blaOXA-type carbapenemase genes and antimicrobial resistance among clinically isolated samples of A. baumannii. We assessed 100 clinically isolated specimens of A. baumannii from patients in intensive care units of educational hospitals of Hamadan, West of Iran. The A. baumannii isolates' susceptibility to antibiotics was performed employing disk diffusion method. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction was used to identify the blaOXA-24-like , blaOXA-23-like , blaOXA-58-like , and blaOXA-51-like genes. The blaOXA-23-like , blaOXA-24-like , and blaOXA-58-like genes' prevalence were found to be 84, 58, and 3%, respectively. The highest coexistence of the genes was for blaOXA-51/23 (84%) followed by blaOXA-51/24-like (58%). The blaOXA-51/23- like pattern of genes is a sort of dominant gene in resistance in A. baumannii from Hamadan hospitals. The highest resistance to piperacillin (83%) and ciprofloxacin (81%) has been observed in positive isolates of blaOXA-23-like . The A. baumannii isolates with blaOXA-58-like genes did not show much resistance to antibiotics. Based on the results of the phylogenetic tree analysis, all isolates have shown a high degree of similarity. This study showed the high frequency of OXA-type carbapenemase genes among A. baumannii isolates from Hamadan hospitals, Iran. Thus, applying an appropriate strategy to limit the spreading of these strains and also performing new treatment regimens are necessary.


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