Occurrence of Diverse AbGRI1-Type Genomic Islands in Acinetobacter baumannii Global Clone 2 Isolates from South Korea
- 1 February 2017
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 61 (2)
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.01972-16
Abstract
In this study, we analyzed the frequency of the AbGRI1-type genomic island (GI) and its association with genotypes. We obtained 130 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates causing bloodstream infections from patients in South Korea. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and multilocus sequence typing were performed. The presence of AbGRI1-type GIs and their structures were determined by sequential PCR and sequencing. Ninety-eight isolates (75.3%) representing 14 sequence types (STs) belonged to clonal complex 208 (CC208), corresponding to global clone 2 (GC2). AbGRI1-type GIs interrupted the comM gene in 107 isolates (82.4%). Four types of GIs were identified: Tn 6022 (50 isolates; 46.7%), AbaR4 (23 isolates; 21.5%), Tn 6166 (10 isolates; 9.3%), and Tn 6166 /Tn 2006 (24 isolates; 22.4%). In the 50 isolates with Tn 6022 , Tn 2006 or Tn 2008B , both containing IS Aba1-bla OXA-23 , was present in sites other than GIs in 3 or 28 isolates, respectively. In the 10 isolates with Tn 6166 , Tn 2008B was identified in one isolate. AbGRI1-type GIs were identified nearly exclusively in CC208 isolates, with the exception of nine non-CC208 isolates (AbaR4 in eight ST229 isolates and Tn 6022 in one ST1244 isolate). Within CC208 isolates, there was evidence of frequent recombination events, in both housekeeping genes and AbGRI1-type GIs, contributing to genotype diversification and the emergence of carbapenem resistance.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2016R1A2A2A05005075)
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