Antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and RAPD-PCR typing of Acinetobacter bacteria.

Background: Multiple-drug resistant Acinetobacter have widely spread in the last decades imposing a serious nosocomial source of infection. Nevertheless, little knowledge was gaimed on tracing the development of antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter species. Objectives: Explore Acinetobacter spp....

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Main Authors: Sadeghifard, Nourkhoda, Ranjbar, Reza, Zaeimi, Javad, Alikhan, Mohammad Yousef, Ghafouryan, Sobhan, Raftari, Mohammad, Abdulamir, Ahmed Sahib, Delpisheh, Ali, Mohebi, Reza, Abu Bakar, Fatimah
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Published: IOS Press 2010
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spelling my.upm.eprints.131602014-04-03T03:50:08Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13160/ Antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and RAPD-PCR typing of Acinetobacter bacteria. Sadeghifard, Nourkhoda Ranjbar, Reza Zaeimi, Javad Alikhan, Mohammad Yousef Ghafouryan, Sobhan Raftari, Mohammad Abdulamir, Ahmed Sahib Delpisheh, Ali Mohebi, Reza Abu Bakar, Fatimah Background: Multiple-drug resistant Acinetobacter have widely spread in the last decades imposing a serious nosocomial source of infection. Nevertheless, little knowledge was gaimed on tracing the development of antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter species. Objectives: Explore Acinetobacter spp. via antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and random amplified polymorphism DNA polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) typing.Methods: One hundred twelve Acinetobacter isolates (including 66 A. baumannii and 46 non-Acinetobacter baumannii strains) were obtained from three university hospitals. The source of infection of these isolates included blood, urine, wound, and respiratory tract. Their susceptibilities to 17 antibiotics were tested and then all Acinetobacter isolates were typed by plasmid analysis and RAPD-PCR method.Results: A. baumannii isolates revealed nine different patterns of antibiotic resistance. Of those, non-A. baumannii, were associated with plasmid and RAPD-PCR typings (p 0.05).Conclusion: There is a wide spread of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter spp., particularly A. baumannii, in the Middle East region that can be traced efficiently by plasmid and genotyping typing of Acinetobacter. More care should be taken for tracing the development of antimicrobial resistance of Acinetobacter using precise molecular typing techniques. IOS Press 2010 Article PeerReviewed Sadeghifard, Nourkhoda and Ranjbar, Reza and Zaeimi, Javad and Alikhan, Mohammad Yousef and Ghafouryan, Sobhan and Raftari, Mohammad and Abdulamir, Ahmed Sahib and Delpisheh, Ali and Mohebi, Reza and Abu Bakar, Fatimah (2010) Antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and RAPD-PCR typing of Acinetobacter bacteria. Asian Biomedicine, 4 (6). pp. 901-911. ISSN 1905-7415; ESSN: 1875-855X http://abm.digitaljournals.org/index.php/abm/asianbio English
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description Background: Multiple-drug resistant Acinetobacter have widely spread in the last decades imposing a serious nosocomial source of infection. Nevertheless, little knowledge was gaimed on tracing the development of antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter species. Objectives: Explore Acinetobacter spp. via antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and random amplified polymorphism DNA polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) typing.Methods: One hundred twelve Acinetobacter isolates (including 66 A. baumannii and 46 non-Acinetobacter baumannii strains) were obtained from three university hospitals. The source of infection of these isolates included blood, urine, wound, and respiratory tract. Their susceptibilities to 17 antibiotics were tested and then all Acinetobacter isolates were typed by plasmid analysis and RAPD-PCR method.Results: A. baumannii isolates revealed nine different patterns of antibiotic resistance. Of those, non-A. baumannii, were associated with plasmid and RAPD-PCR typings (p 0.05).Conclusion: There is a wide spread of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter spp., particularly A. baumannii, in the Middle East region that can be traced efficiently by plasmid and genotyping typing of Acinetobacter. More care should be taken for tracing the development of antimicrobial resistance of Acinetobacter using precise molecular typing techniques.
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author Sadeghifard, Nourkhoda
Ranjbar, Reza
Zaeimi, Javad
Alikhan, Mohammad Yousef
Ghafouryan, Sobhan
Raftari, Mohammad
Abdulamir, Ahmed Sahib
Delpisheh, Ali
Mohebi, Reza
Abu Bakar, Fatimah
spellingShingle Sadeghifard, Nourkhoda
Ranjbar, Reza
Zaeimi, Javad
Alikhan, Mohammad Yousef
Ghafouryan, Sobhan
Raftari, Mohammad
Abdulamir, Ahmed Sahib
Delpisheh, Ali
Mohebi, Reza
Abu Bakar, Fatimah
Antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and RAPD-PCR typing of Acinetobacter bacteria.
author_facet Sadeghifard, Nourkhoda
Ranjbar, Reza
Zaeimi, Javad
Alikhan, Mohammad Yousef
Ghafouryan, Sobhan
Raftari, Mohammad
Abdulamir, Ahmed Sahib
Delpisheh, Ali
Mohebi, Reza
Abu Bakar, Fatimah
author_sort Sadeghifard, Nourkhoda
title Antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and RAPD-PCR typing of Acinetobacter bacteria.
title_short Antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and RAPD-PCR typing of Acinetobacter bacteria.
title_full Antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and RAPD-PCR typing of Acinetobacter bacteria.
title_fullStr Antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and RAPD-PCR typing of Acinetobacter bacteria.
title_full_unstemmed Antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and RAPD-PCR typing of Acinetobacter bacteria.
title_sort antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiles, and rapd-pcr typing of acinetobacter bacteria.
publisher IOS Press
publishDate 2010
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13160/
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