Virulence-related traits of epidemic Acinetobacter baumannii strains belonging to the international clonal lineages I-III and to the emerging genotypes ST25 and ST78

Table 1 Epidemiological, phenotypic and genotypic data of the A. baumannii isolates included in the study

Strain	Isolate source	Hospital	Year	Patients^a	PFGE type	MLST	MDR/XDR	IMP MIC mg/L	Reference
AYE	Urine	Kremlin-Bicetre/FR	2001	12	A	ST1 (IC-I)	MDR	2	[28]
700	Blood culture	F-Naples/IT	1999	81	B	ST1 (IC-I)	MDR	2	[4]
2979	Wound swab	Agrigento/IT	2002	14	C	ST20 (IC-I)	MDR	2	[4]
3130	Blood culture	SG-Beirut /LB	2004	17	D	ST20 (IC-I)	XDR	16	[4]
2105	Bronchial aspirate	F-Naples /IT	2002	43	E	ST2 (IC-II)	XDR	16	[4]
3990	Central venous catheter	M-Naples /IT	2006	12	E	ST2 (IC-II)	XDR	32	[31]
ACICU	Cerebrospinal fluid	Rome/IT	2005	14	E1	ST2 (IC-II)	XDR	32	[30]
2735	Bronchial aspirate	M-Naples /IT	2004	2	E2	ST2 (IC-II)	XDR	64	[4]
3889	Bronchial aspirate	Athens/GR	2005	4	F	ST2 (IC-II)	XDR	16	[4]
4026	Bronchial aspirate	SJ-Beirut /LB	2007	5	G	ST2 (IC-II)	XDR	16	[4]
4009	Blood culture	Genoa/IT	2007	4	H	ST2 (IC-II)	XDR	32	[4]
4025	Bronchial aspirate	SG-Beirut /LB	2005	3	I	ST3 (IC-III)	XDR	16	[4]
LUH 5875	Blood culture	Utrecht/NL,	1997	15	J	ST3 (IC-III)	MDR	2	[29]
3868	Bronchial aspirate	Izmir/TK	2003	2	K	ST15	XDR	16	[4]
3871	Bronchial aspirate	Istanbul/TK	2003	1	K1	ST84	XDR	16	[4]
3890	Bronchial aspirate	Thessaloniki/GR	2003	12	L	ST25	XDR	16	[4]
3865	Blood culture	Kocaeli/TK	2005	47	M	ST25	XDR	64	[4]
4190	Blood culture	M-Naples /IT	2009	3	N	ST25	XDR	64	[4]
ATCC 19606^T	Urine	Atlanta/USA	Before 1949	1	O	ST52	susceptible	2	[32]
ATCC 17978	Blood culture	France	1951	1	P	ST77	susceptible	2	[33]
3909	Bronchial aspirate	M-Naples /IT	2007	55	Q	ST78	XDR	16	[31]
3957	Bronchial aspirate	M-Naples /IT	2007	55	Q	ST78	XDR	16	[31]
3911	Blood culture	M-Naples /IT	2007	1	Q1	ST78	XDR	16	[31]

Abbreviations: F-Naples, Federico II University Hospital, Naples; M-Naples, Monaldi Hospital, Naples; SG-Beirut, Saint Gorge Hospital, Beirut; SJ-Beirut, Saint Joseph Hospital, Beirut; FR, France; GR, Greece; IT, Italy; LB, Lebanon; TK, Turkey; ^a Number of patients from whom an isolate with each particular PFGE type was detected; MLST, Multi-locus sequencing typing; ST, sequence type; IC, international clone; IMP, imipenem; MIC, Minimum inhibitory concentration.

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