Diversity of Sequence Types and Impact of Fitness Cost among Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from Tripoli, Libya-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Diversity of Sequence Types and Impact of Fitness Cost among Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from Tripoli, Libya

Published:2021-07-16 Issue:8 Volume:65 Page:
ISSN:0066-4804
Container-title:Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
language:en
Short-container-title:Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Author:

Abou Fayad Antoine G.¹²³^ORCID,Haraoui Louis-Patrick⁴,Sleiman Ahmad¹²³,Jaafar Mohamad¹²³,Zorgani Abdulaziz⁵,Matar Ghassan M.¹²³,Higgins Paul G.⁶⁷^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

2. Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

3. World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Bacterial Pathogens, Beirut, Lebanon

4. Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

5. National Center for Disease Control Libya, Reference Laboratory, Tripoli, Libya

6. Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

7. German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Abstract

We investigated the molecular epidemiology of 21 carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Libya and assessed their relative fitness. Core genome multilocus sequence typing (MLST) revealed five interhospital transmission clusters.

Funder

Medical Practice Plan-AUBMC

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AAC.00277-21

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