Abstract
An outbreak of hospital-acquired Acinetobacter baumannii infections, caused by a blaOXA-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=1 class 1 integron. In addition, the strain carried AbaR25, a novel AbaR4-like resistance island of̃46,500 bp containing structures similar to the previously described AbaR22 and Tn6167 islands. AbaR25 was characterized by the occurrence of a second copy of Tn6022a interrupted by Tn2006 carrying the blaOXA-23 gene.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1069-1072 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2013 |
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords*
- medicine
Field of Science*
- 3.2 Clinical medicine
- 3.1 Basic medicine
Publication Type*
- 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
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