Article
Nosocomial spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (types ST75 and ST137) carrying blaOXA-23-like gene with an upstream ISAba1 in a Chinese hospital.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2013
Dai Wei, Huang Shifeng, Sun Shan, Cao Ju, Zhang Liping
Abstract excerpt
The most widespread type of carbapenemases among carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) belongs to the oxacillinase (OXA) group. A total of 57 CRAB isolates and 20 non-CRAB isolates (i.e., A. baumannii susceptible to carbapenems) were studied to investigate the molecular epidemiology of CRAB isolates and to identify the OXAs responsible for resistance to imipenem. The ISAba1-blaOXA-23-like gene was...
Topics
- Acinetobacter Infections
- Acinetobacter baumannii
- Alleles
- Carbapenems
- China
- Cross Infection
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Multilocus Sequence Typing
- beta-Lactam Resistance