AbaR5, a large multiple-antibiotic resistance region found in Acinetobacter baumannii

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2009 Jun;53(6):2667-71. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01407-08. Epub 2009 Apr 13.

Abstract

A multiply antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strain, 3208, contains the aacC1-orfP-orfP-orfQ-aadA1 gene cassette array; sul1, tetA(A), and aphA1b genes; and a mer operon in a large region containing a novel transposon, Tn6020, and segments of Tn1696, Tn21, Tn1721, and Tn5393. This region is part of a genomic resistance island, AbaR5, related to and found in the same chromosomal position as AbaR1. This strain is the first European clone I isolate detected in Australia.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acinetobacter baumannii / drug effects*
  • Acinetobacter baumannii / genetics*
  • Base Sequence
  • DNA Transposable Elements
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Multigene Family*
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction

Substances

  • DNA Transposable Elements

Associated data

  • GENBANK/FJ172370