Phenotypic Methods and Molecular Metallo-β-lactamases Genes Detection in Different Clinical Carbapenems Resistant Acinetobacters Isolates from Tanta University Hospitals | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Medical Microbiology | ||||
| Article 12, Volume 30, Issue 3, July 2021, Page 89-95 PDF (407.09 K) | ||||
| Document Type: New and original researches in the field of Microbiology. | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Kareman Ahmed Eshra 
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| Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Acinetobacter species are very common in hospital acquired infections; Carbapenems resistant species become common in hospital and represent a major health problem. Methodology: Our study was carried on 150 patients from ICU; we compared different phenotypic methods and PCR for detection of carbapenems resistance in Acinetobacters. Results: 88.9% of resistant Acinetobacters were detected by Kirby Bauer Disk diffusion method, 54.2%by Modified Hodge test, 70.8 % by EDTA disc synergy, 85.4% by Amp C disk test, 33.3% by PCR bla-IMP and 12.5% by PCR bla-VIM. Conclusion: We recommended for detection of carbapenems resistance in Acinetobacters the phenotypic methods as they are rapid, accurate methods and less costly than PCR. Note: bla-IMP gene (NCBI GenBank Nucleotide accession # LC103138.1); bla-VIM gene (NCBI GenBank Nucleotide accession # MT185944.1 GenBank accession number S71932 | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Acinetobacters; Carbapenems resistance genes; Metallo beta lactamases | ||||
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