Genetic Resistance Determinants in Clinical Acinetobacter pittii Genomes

Chapartegui-González, Itziar and Lázaro-Díez, María and Ramos Vivas, Jose UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, jose.ramos@uneatlantico.es (2022) Genetic Resistance Determinants in Clinical Acinetobacter pittii Genomes. Antibiotics, 11 (5). p. 676. ISSN 2079-6382

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Abstract

Antimicrobial-resistant pathogenic bacteria are an increasing problem in public health, especially in the healthcare environment, where nosocomial infection microorganisms find their niche. Among these bacteria, the genus Acinetobacter which belongs to the ESKAPE pathogenic group harbors different multi-drug resistant (MDR) species that cause human nosocomial infections. Although A. baumannii has always attracted more interest, the close-related species A. pittii is the object of more study due to the increase in its isolation and MDR strains. In this work, we present the genomic analysis of five clinically isolated A. pittii strains from a Spanish hospital, with special attention to their genetic resistance determinants and plasmid structures. All the strains harbored different genes related to β-lactam resistance, as well as different MDR efflux pumps. We also found and described, for the first time in this species, point mutations that seem linked with colistin resistance, which highlights the relevance of this comparative analysis among the pathogenic species isolates.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Acinetobacter pittii; WGS; MDR; plasmid; nosocomial
Subjects: Subjects > Biomedicine
Divisions: Europe University of Atlantic > Research > Scientific Production
Ibero-american International University > Research > Scientific Production
Depositing User: Sr Bibliotecario
Date Deposited: 30 May 2022 08:31
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2023 10:44
URI: http://repositorio.funiber.org/id/eprint/2124

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