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Arta Balode

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Dissemination of a Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Strain Belonging to International Clone II/Sequence Type 2 and Harboring a Novel AbaR…

2013

ABSTRACT An outbreak of hospital-acquired Acinetobacter baumannii infections, caused by a bla OXA-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 Δ 1 class 1 integron. In addition, the strain carried AbaR25, a novel AbaR4-like resistance island of ∼46,500 bp containing structures similar to the previously described AbaR22 and Tn 6167 islands. AbaR25 was characterized by the occurrence of a second copy of Tn 6022a interrupted by Tn 2006 carrying the bla OXA-23 gene.

Acinetobacter baumanniiclone (Java method)Genomic IslandsMolecular Sequence DataMicrobial Sensitivity TestsIntegronbeta-Lactam Resistancebeta-LactamasesDisease OutbreaksIntegronsMicrobiologyMechanisms of ResistancePharmacology (medical)GeneVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Basic medical dental and veterinary science disciplines: 710::Medical molecular biology: 711Sequence (medicine)PharmacologyCross InfectionMolecular EpidemiologyMolecular epidemiologyStrain (chemistry)biologyOutbreakMethyltransferasesVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Basic medical dental and veterinary science disciplines: 710::Medical microbiology: 715biology.organism_classificationLatviaAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Typing TechniquesAcinetobacter baumanniiInfectious DiseasesCarbapenemsVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Basale medisinske odontologiske og veterinærmedisinske fag: 710::Medisinsk immunologi: 716VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Basale medisinske odontologiske og veterinærmedisinske fag: 710::Medisinsk mikrobiologi: 715DNA Transposable Elementsbiology.proteinGenes MDRVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Basic medical dental and veterinary science disciplines: 710::Medical immunology: 716VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Basale medisinske odontologiske og veterinærmedisinske fag: 710::Medisinsk molekylærbiologi: 711Acinetobacter Infections
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Outbreak of CTX-M-15-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae of sequence type 199 in a Latvian teaching hospital

2010

Dumpis U, Iversen A, Balode A, Saule M, Miklasevics E, Giske CG. Outbreak of CTX-M-15-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae of sequence type 199 in a Latvian teaching hospital. APMIS 2010; 118: 713–6. Previous studies on the epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Latvia are lacking. ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (n = 32) were subjected to pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and selected isolates to multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). Species identification and susceptibility testing were performed using VITEK2, and sequencing of blaCTX-M was performed in selected isolates. PFGE revealed one major clone (n = 23), with most of the isolates de…

Microbiology (medical)biologyKlebsiella pneumoniaemedicine.medical_treatmentOutbreakGeneral Medicinebiochemical phenomena metabolism and nutritionbacterial infections and mycosesbiology.organism_classificationVirologyEnterobacteriaceaePathology and Forensic MedicineMicrobiologychemistry.chemical_compoundchemistryPulsed-field gel electrophoresisBeta-lactamasemedicineImmunology and AllergyMultilocus sequence typingTypingErtapenemAPMIS
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