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Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumanni isolated from surgical wards in a university hospital, China. A total of 143 non-duplicate A. baumannii were isolated from 517 inpatients in surgery intensive care units (ICUs), burn wards, and general surgery wards. Of these, 102 isolates of A. baumannii (71.3%) were resistant to imipenem. Among imipenem-resistant isolates, all isolates were resistant to almost all antimicrobial agents except polymyxin E, all isolates were positive for blaOXA-23 and blaOXA-51 in addition to ISAba1, 52 (51%) were positive for blaOXA-58, 8 (7.8%) contained blaVIM-2, which co-harbored with blaOXA-58. Molecular typing revealed the presence of three clones among imipenem-resistant isolates. This study confirmed that A. baumannii strains harboring OXA or VIM type β-lactamases are widely distributed throughout the surgery wards. The data demonstrate that there was a high prevalence of imipenem-resistant A. baumannii infection in the region.
Declaration of interest: The present project was financially funded by grants from the National Science & Technology Program during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan Period in China (2004BA720A09-02). The PCR technology was partially supported by Jilin Leibo Scientific Co. Ltd, China. The study was partially presented at the International Conference of Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE 2013). The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.