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ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
卷 52, 期 7, 页码 2573-2580出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00393-08
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The oxacillinase gene was reported to confer limited resistance to carbapenem in Acinetobacter baumannii. In this study, we have demonstrated that an A. baumannii clinical isolate harboring a plasmid, pTVICU53, has 11,037 bp encoding 13 open reading frames. A bla(OXA-58) gene with an upstream insertion of truncated ISAba3 (Delta ISAba3) and IS1008 was found in this plasmid. Delta ISAba3 and IS1008 provided two independent promoters for the transcription control of the bla(OXA-58) gene. The transformation of pTVICU53 or a shuttle vector bearing IS1008-Delta ISAba3-bla(OXA-58) to different A. baumannii recipients can increase their MICs of carbapenem 64- to 256-fold. The deletion of promoters provided by IS1008 resulted in dramatic decreases in bla(OXA-58) transcription and a 32- to 64-fold reduction in the carbapenem MIC. These findings highlight that A. baumannii might develop carbapenem resistance with a single transformation step, taking up a plasmid containing a genetic construct with a potentially high level of transcription of the bla(OXA-58) gene.
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