A single genotype of Acinetobacter baumannii expresses multiple antibiotic susceptibility phenotypes
| Autor: | Mohammad S. Khan, Julio A. Ramirez, Timothy L. Wiemken, Ruth Carrico, Robert Kelley, Daniel Curran, Emily Pacholski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Acinetobacter baumannii
Genotype Epidemiology medicine.drug_class Antibiotics Repetitive Sequences Microbial Sensitivity Tests law.invention Microbiology law Drug Resistance Bacterial medicine Humans Polymerase chain reaction Cross Infection biology business.industry Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Outbreak biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification Phenotype Anti-Bacterial Agents Molecular Typing Infectious Diseases business Bacteria Acinetobacter Infections |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Infection Control. 42:556-558 |
| ISSN: | 0196-6553 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ajic.2014.01.003 |
| Popis: | It is common practice to define a bacterium with unequal antibiotic susceptibility phenotypes as a different genotype. Here, we describe the utility of this practice for Acinetobacter baumannii . We determined antibiotic susceptibility for 19 clinical isolates of A baumannii . Repetitive sequence polymerase chain reaction method was used to determine genotypes. Although all isolates were of the same genotype, 79% were predicted to be different based on susceptibility patterns. The antibiotic susceptibility phenotype does not accurately predict the genotype of A baumannii . |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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