Emergence of Acinetobacter towneri harbouring a novel plasmid with bla and tet(X7) from hospital wastewater in the Philippines.

Objectives: The clinical effectiveness of carbapenem and tigecycline, which are last-resort antimicrobials used to treat multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, faces challenges due to emerging plasmid-borne resistance mechanisms, including the enzymatic inactivation of antimicrobials. Here, we investigate and report the co-occurrence of bla and tet(X7) genes in an Acinetobacter towneri isolate from hospital wastewater in the Philippines.

Methods: An A.

Predicting Pyrodinium bahamense occurrence using weather pattern data in Eastern Visayas, Philippines.

Pyrodinium bahamense, a harmful alga which causes paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP), has been found in seawater samples collected along bays in Eastern Visayas in the Philippines. Due to its negative impacts and uncertainty in its occurrence, there is a need to develop a real-time monitoring device of the harmful algal bloom (HAB) occurrence. This study aims to determine whether there is significant relationship between the dependent variable, the P.