Genome organization of epidemic Acinetobacter baumannii strains.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for hospital-acquired infections. A. baumannii epidemics described world-wide were caused by few genotypic clusters of strains. The occurrence of epidemics caused by multi-drug resistant strains assigned to novel genotypes have been reported over the last few years.

Results

In the present study, we compared whole genome sequences of three A. baumannii strains assigned to genotypes ST2, ST25 and ST78, representative of the most frequent genotypes responsible for epidemics in several Mediterranean hospitals, and four complete genome sequences of A. baumannii strains assigned to genotypes ST1, ST2 and ST77. Comparative genome analysis showed extensive synteny and identified 3068 coding regions which are

SUBMITTER: Di Nocera PP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3224125 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature