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Molecular Typing and Resistance Profile of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the “EPIRADIOCLINF” Project
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a shift in focus towards controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2, which has resulted in the neglect of traditional programs aimed at preventing healthcare-associated infections and combating antimicrobial resistance. The present work aims to characterize the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887252 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12101551 |
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author | Agodi, Antonella Montineri, Arturo Manuele, Rosa Noto, Paola Carpinteri, Giuseppe Castiglione, Giacomo Grassi, Patrizia Lazzara, Antonio Mattaliano, Anna Rita Granvillano, Giuseppa La Mastra, Claudia La Rosa, Maria Clara Maugeri, Andrea Barchitta, Martina |
author_facet | Agodi, Antonella Montineri, Arturo Manuele, Rosa Noto, Paola Carpinteri, Giuseppe Castiglione, Giacomo Grassi, Patrizia Lazzara, Antonio Mattaliano, Anna Rita Granvillano, Giuseppa La Mastra, Claudia La Rosa, Maria Clara Maugeri, Andrea Barchitta, Martina |
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description | Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a shift in focus towards controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2, which has resulted in the neglect of traditional programs aimed at preventing healthcare-associated infections and combating antimicrobial resistance. The present work aims to characterize the colonization or infection with Acinetobacter baumannii of COVID-19 patients and to identify any clonality between different isolates. Specifically, data and resistance profiles of A. baumannii isolates were prospectively collected from patients recruited by the EPIRADIOCLINF project. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) were used for molecular typing. Overall, we analyzed 64 isolates of A. baumannii from 48 COVID-19 patients. According to our analysis, we have identified the spread of a clonally related isolate, referred to as B. The PFGE pattern B includes four subtypes: B1 (consisting of 37 strains), B2 (11), B3 (5), and B4 (2). Furthermore, in the isolates that were examined using MLST, the most observed sequence type was ST/281. In terms of resistance profiles, 59 out of the total isolates (92.2%) were found to be resistant to gentamicin, carbapenems, ciprofloxacin, and tobramycin. The isolation and identification of A. baumannii from COVID-19 patients, along with the high levels of transmission observed within the hospital setting, highlight the urgent need for the implementation of effective prevention and containment strategies. |
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spelling | pubmed-106039942023-10-28 Molecular Typing and Resistance Profile of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the “EPIRADIOCLINF” Project Agodi, Antonella Montineri, Arturo Manuele, Rosa Noto, Paola Carpinteri, Giuseppe Castiglione, Giacomo Grassi, Patrizia Lazzara, Antonio Mattaliano, Anna Rita Granvillano, Giuseppa La Mastra, Claudia La Rosa, Maria Clara Maugeri, Andrea Barchitta, Martina Antibiotics (Basel) Article Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a shift in focus towards controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2, which has resulted in the neglect of traditional programs aimed at preventing healthcare-associated infections and combating antimicrobial resistance. The present work aims to characterize the colonization or infection with Acinetobacter baumannii of COVID-19 patients and to identify any clonality between different isolates. Specifically, data and resistance profiles of A. baumannii isolates were prospectively collected from patients recruited by the EPIRADIOCLINF project. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) were used for molecular typing. Overall, we analyzed 64 isolates of A. baumannii from 48 COVID-19 patients. According to our analysis, we have identified the spread of a clonally related isolate, referred to as B. The PFGE pattern B includes four subtypes: B1 (consisting of 37 strains), B2 (11), B3 (5), and B4 (2). Furthermore, in the isolates that were examined using MLST, the most observed sequence type was ST/281. In terms of resistance profiles, 59 out of the total isolates (92.2%) were found to be resistant to gentamicin, carbapenems, ciprofloxacin, and tobramycin. The isolation and identification of A. baumannii from COVID-19 patients, along with the high levels of transmission observed within the hospital setting, highlight the urgent need for the implementation of effective prevention and containment strategies. MDPI 2023-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10603994/ /pubmed/37887252 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12101551 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Agodi, Antonella Montineri, Arturo Manuele, Rosa Noto, Paola Carpinteri, Giuseppe Castiglione, Giacomo Grassi, Patrizia Lazzara, Antonio Mattaliano, Anna Rita Granvillano, Giuseppa La Mastra, Claudia La Rosa, Maria Clara Maugeri, Andrea Barchitta, Martina Molecular Typing and Resistance Profile of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the “EPIRADIOCLINF” Project |
title | Molecular Typing and Resistance Profile of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the “EPIRADIOCLINF” Project |
title_full | Molecular Typing and Resistance Profile of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the “EPIRADIOCLINF” Project |
title_fullStr | Molecular Typing and Resistance Profile of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the “EPIRADIOCLINF” Project |
title_full_unstemmed | Molecular Typing and Resistance Profile of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the “EPIRADIOCLINF” Project |
title_short | Molecular Typing and Resistance Profile of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the “EPIRADIOCLINF” Project |
title_sort | molecular typing and resistance profile of acinetobacter baumannii isolates during the covid-19 pandemic: findings from the “epiradioclinf” project |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887252 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12101551 |
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