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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pagano, Mariana
• Rocha, Lisiane
• Sampaio, Jorge L M
• Martins, Andreza F
• Barth, Afonso L

Titel

Emergence of OXA-72-producing Acinetobacter baumannii Belonging to High-Risk Clones (CC15 and CC79) in Different Brazilian States

Ist Teil von

• Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2017-02, Vol.38 (2), p.252-254

Ort / Verlag

United States: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To the Editor—Carbapenem resistance limits treatment options and causes major therapeutic problems; it has been continuously reported worldwide among Acinetobacter baumannii isolates. [...]there have been only a few reports of other oxacilinases, such as blaOXA-72, in Brazil.1 Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) seems to be a reliable tool for investigating population structure and global A. baumannii epidemiology. Species identification was performed using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) and a gyrB multiplex PCR, and all blaOXA-72–producing isolates were identified as A. baumannii. According to the MLST data analysis and the eBURST algorithm, the isolates belonged to the epidemic clonal complexes CC15 (ST180 and ST890) and CC79 (ST79 and ST730), and the ST891 was a singleton.