TY - JOUR
T1 - A rare occurrence of multidrug-resistant environmental Acinetobacter baumannii strains from the soil of Mangaluru, India
AU - Suresh, Sarika
AU - Aditya, Vankadari
AU - Deekshit, Vijaya Kumar
AU - Manipura, Radhakrishna
AU - Premanath, Ramya
N1 - Funding Information:
The study was supported by the Nitte University Grant (No. N/RG/NUFR2/ NUCSER /2020/03).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - Over the last decade, Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as one of the main causes of infections acquired in the hospital setting. Outbreaks associated with this pathogen are caused mainly due to contamination and transmission in hospital territories. However, the natural habitats of A. baumannii of clinical significance still remain unclear. In this study, we highlight the isolation and identification of multidrug-resistant environmental strains of A. baumannii from the soil of Mangaluru city. All the recovered isolates were biofilm formers, and two isolates were multidrug-resistant and showed resistance to fluoroquinolone, aminoglycosides, sulfonamide, tetracycline, and carbapenems. In addition, they exhibited protease activity, and produced phospholipase C and siderophore. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to isolate and identify drug-resistant strains of A. baumannii from the soil.
AB - Over the last decade, Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as one of the main causes of infections acquired in the hospital setting. Outbreaks associated with this pathogen are caused mainly due to contamination and transmission in hospital territories. However, the natural habitats of A. baumannii of clinical significance still remain unclear. In this study, we highlight the isolation and identification of multidrug-resistant environmental strains of A. baumannii from the soil of Mangaluru city. All the recovered isolates were biofilm formers, and two isolates were multidrug-resistant and showed resistance to fluoroquinolone, aminoglycosides, sulfonamide, tetracycline, and carbapenems. In addition, they exhibited protease activity, and produced phospholipase C and siderophore. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to isolate and identify drug-resistant strains of A. baumannii from the soil.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00203-022-03035-0
DO - 10.1007/s00203-022-03035-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 35750869
AN - SCOPUS:85132855178
SN - 0302-8933
VL - 204
SP - 422
JO - Archives of Microbiology
JF - Archives of Microbiology
IS - 7
M1 - 422
ER -