[Molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii in Argentina].

[Molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii in Argentina]. Rev Argent Microbiol. 2018 Dec 11;: Authors: H Rodríguez C, Nastro M, A Flores S, Rodriguez M, Spinozzi M, Bruni G, L López A, David V, S Aiassa M, A Marqués I, R Navarro O, Paniccia L, Famiglietti A, Grupo colaborativo Acinetobacter Argentina Abstract One hundred sequential, epidemiologically unrelated carbapenem-resistant- Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from 11 hospitals in 10 Argentine provinces were collected between January and August 2016. Genes coding for Ambler class D and B carbapenemases were investigated by PCR using specific primers. All isolates were typed using the 3-locus sequence typing and blaOXA-51-like sequence-based typing techniques. The blaOXA-23 gene was recovered in all isolates studied. The population of carbapenem-resistant- A. baumannii in Argentina was principally associated with ST1 (45%), ST25 (34%) and ST79 (15%). ST25 was recovered in all the regions studied and CC2 was not detected. PMID: 30551810 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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