Comparative resistome and virulome analysis of clinical NDM-1-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex.

Objectives: The Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC) are causatives of hospital-acquired infections. The antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and virulence profiling of ECC promotes our knowledge for their elimination in clinical settings.

Methods: We assembled the whole genome of four clinical carbapenem-resistant ECCs and characterized their AMR and virulence profiles using whole genome sequencing.

Two new rapid PCR-based methods for identification of Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from clinical samples.

The accurate identification of Acinetobacter spp. is challenging due to their high phenotypic and biochemical similarities. Because clinical relevance and antibiotic susceptibility are significantly different among different genomic species of Acinetobacter, the exact identification of A.

Circulation of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii ST10, ST2 and ST3 in a university teaching hospital from Tehran, Iran.

Purpose: Multi-drug resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii has introduced a worldwide health crisis. The purposes of this study were to characterize the clonal relatedness among MDR clinical strains and to introduce a new two-locus typing method confirmed by multi-locus sequence typing (MLST).

Methodology: In this study, we determined antimicrobial resistance, detected genes associated with carbapenem resistance and characterized clonal relatedness among 99 clinical isolates extracted from 82 hospitalized inpatients in a university hospital.