Dissemination of a carbapenem-resistant acinetobacter baumannii strain belonging to international clone II/sequence type 2 and harboring a novel abar4-like resistance Island in Latvia
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2013-02
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An outbreak of hospital-acquired Acinetobacter baumannii infections, caused by a blaOXA-23-positive carbapenem-resistant strain belonging to international clone II/ST2, was detected in Latvia. The strain was partially equipped with the armA gene and the intI1-aacA4-catB8-aadA1-qacE=1 class 1 integron. In addition, the strain carried AbaR25, a novel AbaR4-like resistance island of̃46,500 bp containing structures similar to the previously described AbaR22 and Tn6167 islands. AbaR25 was characterized by the occurrence of a second copy of Tn6022a interrupted by Tn2006 carrying the blaOXA-23 gene.
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medicine, 3.1 Basic medicine, 3.2 Clinical medicine, 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database, Pharmacology, Pharmacology (medical), Infectious Diseases, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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Saule, M, Samuelsen, O, Dumpis, U, Sundsfjord, A, Karlsone, A, Balode, A, Miklasevics, E & Karah, N 2013, 'Dissemination of a carbapenem-resistant acinetobacter baumannii strain belonging to international clone II/sequence type 2 and harboring a novel abar4-like resistance Island in Latvia', Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 1069-1072. https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01783-12