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Purpose. This study aimed to characterize A. baumannii strains isolated from patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting. Molecular techniques were used to study clonal relatedness and determine a fast, efficient and cost-effective way of detecting persistent clones.

Methodology. A. baumannii (n=17) were obtained in June and November 2015 from a single ICU setting in South India. DNA typing methods such as multilocus sequence typing (MLST), single-locus sequence-based typing (SBT) and DNA fingerprinting PCRs (M13, DAF4 and ERIC2) were employed to understand the association of clones. PCRs were performed for the antimicrobial resistance genes ISAba1-bla OXA-51-like, ISAba1-bla OXA-23-like, bla NDM-1, bla PER-7 and bla TEM-1, and the virulence genes cpa 1, cpa2 and pkf.

Results. The MLST showed some degree of corroboration with the other DNA typing methods. The M13 PCR was found to give better results than the other fingerprinting methods. ST848 (CC92) was the dominant strain isolated in both June and November. All isolates were bla OXA-51-like-positive, with 16 having ISAba1 upstream of the bla OXA-51-like and bla OXA-23-like genes. Genes such as bla NDM-1 (23 %, n=4), bla PER-7 (58.8 %, n=10), pkf (82 %, n=14), bla TEM-1 (5.8 %, n=1), cpa1 (5.8 %, n=1) and cpa2 (5.8 %, n=1) were also detected.

Conclusion. M13 PCR can be used in routine environmental surveillance for the detection of persistent antibiotic resistant clones in an ICU setting because of its reliability and simplicity. Further studies based on greater sample size, conducted at the multi-centre level, can give us a better understanding of the reliability of the molecular methods that can be used for the detection of persistent clones in the hospital setting.

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