Isolation and Characterization of Acinetobacter baumannii Recovered from Campylobacter Selective Medium.

ABSTRACT: Acinetobacter baumannii, a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen, is known to cause multidrug resistant infections. This organism has primarily been isolated from clinical environments and its environmental reservoirs remain largely unknown. In the present study, we recovered seven isolates of A. baumannii growing under conditions selective for Campylobacter spp. (microaerophilic at 42°C and in the presence of antibiotics) from dairy cattle manure storage tank or surface water impacted by livestock effluents. Antibiotic susceptibility tests revealed that all of these isolates were less susceptible to at least two different clinically relevant antibiotics, compared to the type strain A. baumannii ATCC17978. Expression of resistance-nodulation-division efflux pumps

SUBMITTER: Fernando DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5114274 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature