Abstract
A carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strain was isolated from the peritoneal fluid of a patient with complicated intra-abdominal infection and evaluated at the Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network by whole-genome sequencing and real-time PCR. The isolate was sequence type 25 and susceptible to colistin and minocycline, with low MICs of tigecycline. blaNDM-1 was located on a plasmid with >99% homology to pNDM-BJ02. The isolate carried numerous other antibiotic resistance genes, including the 16S methylase gene, armA.
Publication types
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Case Reports
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
MeSH terms
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Acinetobacter Infections / diagnosis
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Acinetobacter Infections / drug therapy
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Acinetobacter Infections / microbiology*
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Acinetobacter baumannii / drug effects
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Acinetobacter baumannii / enzymology
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Acinetobacter baumannii / genetics
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Acinetobacter baumannii / isolation & purification*
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Aged
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Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
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Colistin / pharmacology
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Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
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High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
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Honduras
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Humans
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Male
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Methyltransferases / genetics
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Methyltransferases / metabolism
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Minocycline / analogs & derivatives
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Minocycline / pharmacology
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Peritonitis / diagnosis
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Peritonitis / drug therapy
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Peritonitis / microbiology*
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Plasmids*
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Tigecycline
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beta-Lactamases / genetics*
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beta-Lactamases / metabolism
Substances
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Anti-Bacterial Agents
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Tigecycline
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16S rRNA - m7G methyltransferase
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Methyltransferases
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beta-Lactamases
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beta-lactamase NDM-1
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Minocycline
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Colistin