Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter
Molecular and Epidemiological Characterization of Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Non Tertiary Korean Hospitals
... Purpose: The increasing prevalence and global spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) has become a serious problem. The aim of this study was to investigate molecular ...
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Phenotypic and molecular characterisations of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated in Madagascar
... CarO: Carbapenem-associated outer-membrane; CAZ: Ceftazidime; CGE: Centre for genomic epidemiology; CIP: Ciprofloxacin; CRAb: Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii; CRISPRs: Clustered ...
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Faucet aerators as a reservoir for Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: a healthcare-associated infection outbreak in a neurosurgical intensive care unit
... Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) is emerging as a problematic pathogen for patients, clinicians, and infection-control personnel, owing to high mortality, less treatment options, ...
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Prevalence of different carbapenemase genes among carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii blood isolates in Taiwan
... The Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii (ACB) complex is composed of ...of carbapenem-resistant forms of each of these species from hospital isolates has caused great ...of ...
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Prevalence of carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from 2005 to 2016 in Switzerland
... penem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in healthcare settings” [8], concluded that “there has been an overall in- crease in carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Europe, ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates in the Gulf Cooperation Council States: Dominance of OXA 23 Type Producers
... of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) were de- termined in hospitals in the states of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC]), ...
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Occurrence of Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Clones at Multiple Hospitals in London and Southeast England
... Typical members of OXA-23 clones 1 and 2 were notably resistant. Resistance to imipenem and meropenem was more consistent than in the SE clone (Table 2) and was unequivocal under British Society for Antimicrobial ...
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Comparison between bacteremia caused by carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter nosocomialis
... The presumptive identification of the isolates to the level of the Ab group was performed with the API ID 32 GN system (bioMérieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France) or Vitek 2 system (bioMérieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France). A ...
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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Egypt
... This study aimed to phenotypically and molecularly characterize 74 Egyptian A. baumannii isolates to iden- tify the different enzymes responsible for carbapenem resistance. Several phenotypic methods, including ...
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Epidemiology and clonality of carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from an intensive care unit in Palermo, Italy
... were resistant to pen- icillins (ampicillin, carbenicillin), cephalosporins (cefepime, cefotaxime, ceftazidime), β-lactam-β-lactamase inhibitor combinations and fluoroquinolones, whereas suscepti- bility to ...
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Prevalence of metallo-β-lactamases in carbapenem resistant acinetobacter baumannii isolated from tracheal secretions
... Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative, pleomorphic bacterium. It is a non-motile, encapsulated, non-lactose fermenting isolates (Berezin and Towner, 1996). Recently A. baumannii has appeared as chief ...
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Comparison of Minocycline Susceptibility Testing Methods for Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
... 6. Liu JW, Ko WC, Huang CH, Liao CH, Lu CT, Chuang YC, Tsao SM, Chen YS, Liu YC, Chen WY, Jang TN, Lin HC, Chen CM, Shi ZY, Pan SC, Yang JL, Kung HC, Liu CE, Cheng YJ, Chen YH, Lu PL, Sun W, Wang LS, Yu KW, Chiang PC, ...
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Antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of cinnamaldehyde against carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Egypt: In vitro study
... In this study, a total of 23 carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii clinical strains were collected from the different sources of Theodor Bilharz Research Institute (TBRI) during the period from November 2014 to ...
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Molecular characterization of β-lactamase genes in clinical isolates of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
... Determination of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) Carbapenem MIC results were obtained for each CRAB isolate using the VITEK 2 system and the results were confirmed by broth microdilution. All clinical ...
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Genotyping of carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from tracheal tube discharge of hospitalized patients in intensive care units, Ahvaz, Iran.
... of carbapenem resistant ...all resistant clones, interestingly only genotypes A, B, C and D were positive for bla Oxa-24-like and this gene was negative in genotypes ...from carbapenem ...
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Environmental colonization and onward clonal transmission of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) in a medical intensive care unit: the case for environmental hygiene
... All samples were collected by two microbiology doctors and eight infection control nurses who were trained and supervised by the microbiology doctors. Sterile cotton swabs were moistened with sterile water and were ...
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Control of carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak in an intensive care unit of a teaching hospital in Southern Italy
... Of note is our finding that the strains involved in this outbreak were resistant to at least one agent in the carbapenems category, that were considered to be the only antibiotics with reliable activity against A. ...
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Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter Baumanii Versus MRSA Isolates in ICU in Clinical Center Skopje
... The epidemiologies of the two microbial species are very different and therefore, it is questionable whether the same control measures can be applied to the two pathogens. MRSA is primarily spread from person-to-person, ...
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Horizontal Gene Transfer in a Polyclonal Outbreak of Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
... laboratories, Acinetobacter typing and species iden- tification were performed at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis and by high-reso- lution ...
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An intervention to control an ICU outbreak of carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: long term impact for the ICU and hospital
... Preventing spread of infection within an ICU is chal- lenging. Prevention is based on elements common to the whole ICU, elements specific to particular patients (such as neutropenic patients, patients with burns), ...
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