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Genetic features of CTX-M-15-producing Acinetobacter baumannii from Haiti. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2011 Dec;55(12):5946-8

Date

09/21/2011

Pubmed ID

21930877

Pubmed Central ID

PMC3232807

DOI

10.1128/AAC.05124-11

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-81555201962 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   30 Citations

Abstract

Acinetobacter baumannii isolates T23, W35, and H1 were isolated from three patients who had been injured in the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. Those isolates, corresponding to two distinct clones, were identified as extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) producers and found to be bla(CTX-M-15)-positive. That ESBL gene was associated with ISEcp1, involved in its acquisition by a one-ended transposition mechanism. In all isolates, the ISEcp1-bla(CTX-M-15) compound transposon was apparently chromosomally located.

Author List

Potron A, Munoz-Price LS, Nordmann P, Cleary T, Poirel L

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Acinetobacter Infections
Acinetobacter baumannii
Bacterial Typing Techniques
DNA Transposable Elements
DNA, Bacterial
Earthquakes
Haiti
Humans
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Molecular Sequence Data
Sequence Analysis, DNA
beta-Lactamases