Background: Acinetobacter baumannii is a cosmopolitan bacterium that is frequently reported from hospitalized patients, especially those patients who admitted in the intensive care unit. Recently, multiplex real-time PCR has been introduced for rapid detection of the resistance genes in clinical isolates of bacteria. The current study aimed to develop and evaluate multiplex real-time PCR to detect common resistance genes among clinical isolates of A. baumannii.
Results: Multiplex real-time PCR based on melting curve analysis showed different T corresponding to the amplified fragment consisted of 83.5 °C, 93.3 °C and 89.3 °C for blaIMP, blaVIM and blaNDM, respectively. Results of multiplex real-time PCR showed that the prevalence of blaIMP, blaVIM and blaNDM among the clinical isolates of A. baumannii were 5/128(3.9%), 9/128(7.03%) and 0/128(0%), respectively. Multiplex real-time PCR was able to simultaneously identify the resistance genes, while showed 100% concordance with the results of conventional PCR.
Conclusions: The current study showed that blaVIM, was the most prevalent MBL gene among the clinical isolates of A. baumannii while no amplification of blaNDM was seen. Multiplex real-time PCR can be sensitive and reliable technique for rapid detection of resistance genes in clinical isolates.
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