We may soon be facing the end of the “antibiotic era.” The initial and seemingly unstoppable
success of antibiotics, the fruit of human ingenuity, has been countered by an escalation of …

Integrons are genetic elements composed of a gene encoding an integrase, gene cassettes
and an integration site for the gene cassettes (att). The integrase excises and integrates the …

Carbapenems are administered as the final drug of choice for treating complicated
nosocomial infections caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains. It is …

Bacteria of the genus Acinetobacter are ubiquitous in nature. These organisms were
invariably susceptible to many antibiotics in the 1970s. Since that time, acinetobacters have …

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the diversity of the genes encoding
aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes and their association with class 1 integrons in three pan …

Forty-eight clinical Acinetobacter isolates with different epidemic behavior were investigated
for the presence of integrons and plasmids and for antibiotic susceptibility. Integrons were …

The aim of the study was to investigate the genetic diversity of Acinetobacter baumannii
clinical strains that had previously been allocated to three major groups based on …

Twenty Acinetobacter baumannii strains resistant to various antibiotics were analyzed for
integron content and sequences of the amplification products. Sixteen clinical isolates had a …

Acinetobacter baumannii produces carbapenemase-hydrolyzing class D β-lactamases
(CHDLs) as one of the major drug resistance mechanisms. This investigation is thus aimed …

As a major concern in public health, methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS) still remains
one of the most prevalent pathogens that cause nosocomial infections throughout the world …