Objective. To investigate the antimicrobial susceptibility and clonal relationship of Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated in an Italian ICU. Design. Epidemiological, observational, retrospective, longitudinal study. Setting and participants. The ICU of the University Hospital of Sassari, Italy. Main outcome measures. Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) and Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) were used to evaluate the genomic features of the isolated strains. Results. Drug susceptibility testing for all isolated strains showed the same resistance pattern, characterized by resistance to the most important antibiotics, with the only exception of colistin. PFGE showed a very poor between-strain variability; three distinct clusters, 11, 4, and 1 isolates in size, were identified (Dice's coefficient: 92.11%). MLST showed that all isolated strains belonged to sequence type 2 (ST2). All isolates collected from the environment and the human samples were positive for the following genes: blaOXA-23, blaOXA-51-like, blaVIM-like, blaIMP-like, andISAba1; however, blaOXA-24-like, blaOXA-58-like, and blaNDM-like were not detected. Conclusions. The survey identified XDR strains belonging to the same cell clone, confirming the wide circulation and environmental persistence of this microorganism.

Piana, A., Palmieri, A., Deidda, S., Mura, E., Are, B., Rubino, S., et al. (2015). Molecular typing of XDR Acinetobacter baumannii strains in an Italian ICU. EPIDEMIOLOGIA E PREVENZIONE, 39(4), 129-133.

Molecular typing of XDR Acinetobacter baumannii strains in an Italian ICU

COCUZZA, CLEMENTINA ELVEZIA;
2015

Abstract

Objective. To investigate the antimicrobial susceptibility and clonal relationship of Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated in an Italian ICU. Design. Epidemiological, observational, retrospective, longitudinal study. Setting and participants. The ICU of the University Hospital of Sassari, Italy. Main outcome measures. Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) and Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) were used to evaluate the genomic features of the isolated strains. Results. Drug susceptibility testing for all isolated strains showed the same resistance pattern, characterized by resistance to the most important antibiotics, with the only exception of colistin. PFGE showed a very poor between-strain variability; three distinct clusters, 11, 4, and 1 isolates in size, were identified (Dice's coefficient: 92.11%). MLST showed that all isolated strains belonged to sequence type 2 (ST2). All isolates collected from the environment and the human samples were positive for the following genes: blaOXA-23, blaOXA-51-like, blaVIM-like, blaIMP-like, andISAba1; however, blaOXA-24-like, blaOXA-58-like, and blaNDM-like were not detected. Conclusions. The survey identified XDR strains belonging to the same cell clone, confirming the wide circulation and environmental persistence of this microorganism.
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
Acinetobacter baumannii, antibiotic-resistance, epidemiology
English
2015
39
4
129
133
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Piana, A., Palmieri, A., Deidda, S., Mura, E., Are, B., Rubino, S., et al. (2015). Molecular typing of XDR Acinetobacter baumannii strains in an Italian ICU. EPIDEMIOLOGIA E PREVENZIONE, 39(4), 129-133.
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