Two distinct clones of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Korean hospitals
Young Kyoung Park, Ji Young Choi, Sook-In Jung, Kyong-Hwa Park, Hyuck Lee, Dong Sik Jung, Sang Taek Heo, Shin-Woo Kim, Hyun-Ha Chang, Hae Suk Cheong, Doo Ryeon Chung, Kyong Ran Peck, Jae-Hoon Song, Kwan Soo Ko
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 2009, 64 (4): 389-95
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We investigated the characteristics of 48 carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates collected from 5 tertiary care hospitals in Korea by multilocus sequencing typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and polymerase chain reaction amplification of the antimicrobial resistance determinants. We identified 2 distinct main clones of carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii isolates, which showed different antimicrobial resistance profiles and are also differentiated by the kinds of oxacillinase (OXA) carbapenemases and Acinetobacter-derived cephalosporinase (ADC) beta-lactamases. One main clone, ST22:A, had 27 carbapenem-resistant isolates (56.3%), showed high polymyxin B and colistin resistances (33.3% and 37.0%, respectively), and contained both bla(OXA-51-like) and bla(OXA-23-like) genes and the bla(ADC-29) or bla(ADC-30) gene. In contrast, the other main clone, ST28:B, included 15 isolates (31.3%), showed complete susceptibilities to polymyxin B and colistin, and contained only the bla(OXA-51-like) gene and bla(ADC-31) or bla(ADC-32) genes. The distribution of these main carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii clones did not relate to locality, indicating that they are widespread in Korean hospitals. In addition, we found new types of PER beta-lactamases, PER-6.
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