Genomic Analysis of a Strain Collection Containing Multidrug-, Extensively Drug-, Pandrug-, and Carbapenem-Resistant Modern Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii
Adam Valček, Kristina Nešporová, Clémence Whiteway, Tim De Pooter, Wouter De Coster, Mojca Stražišar, Charles Van der Henst
Abstract
In this study, we characterize a new collection that comprises multidrug-resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR), pandrug-resistant (PDR), and carbapenem-resistant modern clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii collected from hospitals through national microbiological surveillance in Belgium. Bacterial isolates ( n = 43) were subjected to whole-genome sequencing (WGS), combining Illumina (MiSeq) and Nanopore (MinION) technologies, from which high-quality genomes (chromosome and plasmids) were de novo assembled.
Topics & Concepts
Acinetobacter baumanniiBiologyPlasmidMultiple drug resistanceMicrobiologyGenomeMultilocus sequence typingDrug resistanceGeneWhole genome sequencingGeneticsPseudomonas aeruginosaBacteriaGenotypeAntibiotic Resistance in BacteriaBacterial biofilms and quorum sensingEscherichia coli research studies