{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["44(10)"],"submitter":["Ploy MC"],"pubmed_abstract":["Twenty Acinetobacter baumannii strains resistant to various antibiotics were analyzed for integron content and sequences of the amplification products. Sixteen clinical isolates had a class 1 integron, 2 contained an additional class 1 or class 2 integron, but no class 3 integron was detected. Thirteen strains had integrons with a single cassette: aac(3)-Ia (9 strains), ant(2\")-Ia (2 strains), or aac(6')-Ib (2 strains); 1 had aac(6')-Ib and oxa20 cassettes and an unknown gene; and 1 had an integron containing ant(2\")-Ia and an oxa3 cassette truncated by IS6100. The remaining strains harbored class 1 integrons with gene cassettes previously found in Enterobacteriaceae. One integron had a hybrid structure composed of intI2 and the 3' conserved segment of class 1 integrons. These data indicate that integrons play a major role in multidrug resistance in Acinetobacter."],"journal":["Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy"],"pagination":["2684-8"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC90135"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Molecular characterization of integrons in Acinetobacter baumannii: description of a hybrid class 2 integron."],"pmcid":["PMC90135"],"pubmed_authors":["Ploy MC","Courvalin P","Lambert T","Denis F"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Molecular characterization of integrons in Acinetobacter baumannii: description of a hybrid class 2 integron.","description":"Twenty Acinetobacter baumannii strains resistant to various antibiotics were analyzed for integron content and sequences of the amplification products. Sixteen clinical isolates had a class 1 integron, 2 contained an additional class 1 or class 2 integron, but no class 3 integron was detected. Thirteen strains had integrons with a single cassette: aac(3)-Ia (9 strains), ant(2\")-Ia (2 strains), or aac(6')-Ib (2 strains); 1 had aac(6')-Ib and oxa20 cassettes and an unknown gene; and 1 had an integron containing ant(2\")-Ia and an oxa3 cassette truncated by IS6100. The remaining strains harbored class 1 integrons with gene cassettes previously found in Enterobacteriaceae. One integron had a hybrid structure composed of intI2 and the 3' conserved segment of class 1 integrons. These data indicate that integrons play a major role in multidrug resistance in Acinetobacter.","dates":{"release":"2000-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2000 Oct","modification":"2024-11-07T04:46:02.045Z","creation":"2019-03-27T00:18:25Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC90135","cross_references":{"pubmed":["10991844"],"doi":["10.1128/AAC.44.10.2684-2688.2000"]}}