Biofilm formation and motility depend on the nature of the Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates
Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial pathogen involved in a variety of infections ranging from minor soft-tissue infections to more severe infections such as ventilator-associated pneumonia and bacteremia. The severity and the type of infections depend on the genetic and phenotypic variations of...
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| author | Saranya eVijayakumar Sangeetha eRajendran Shakti eLaishram Shalini eAnandan Veeraraghavan eBalaji Indranil eBiswas |
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| description | Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial pathogen involved in a variety of infections ranging from minor soft-tissue infections to more severe infections such as ventilator-associated pneumonia and bacteremia. The severity and the type of infections depend on the genetic and phenotypic variations of the strains. In this study we compared the extent of biofilm formation and motility displayed by sixty multidrug resistant A. baumannii clinical strains isolated from blood and sputum samples from patients from Southern India. Our results showed that isolates from the sputum samples formed significantly more robust biofilm compared to the blood isolates. On the other hand, we observed that the blood isolates were more motile than the sputum isolates. To our knowledge this is the first study that systematically evaluated the correlation between these two phenotypic traits and the nature of the isolates. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b3d76826ea6e4a2daf7311caf03759bc2022-12-22T03:54:26ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652016-05-01410.3389/fpubh.2016.00105186935Biofilm formation and motility depend on the nature of the Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolatesSaranya eVijayakumar0Sangeetha eRajendran1Shakti eLaishram2Shalini eAnandan3Veeraraghavan eBalaji4Indranil eBiswas5Christian Medical CollegeChristian Medical CollegeChristian Medical CollegeChristian Medical CollegeChristian Medical CollegeUniversity of Kansas Medical CenterAcinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial pathogen involved in a variety of infections ranging from minor soft-tissue infections to more severe infections such as ventilator-associated pneumonia and bacteremia. The severity and the type of infections depend on the genetic and phenotypic variations of the strains. In this study we compared the extent of biofilm formation and motility displayed by sixty multidrug resistant A. baumannii clinical strains isolated from blood and sputum samples from patients from Southern India. Our results showed that isolates from the sputum samples formed significantly more robust biofilm compared to the blood isolates. On the other hand, we observed that the blood isolates were more motile than the sputum isolates. To our knowledge this is the first study that systematically evaluated the correlation between these two phenotypic traits and the nature of the isolates.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00105/fullAcinetobacter baumanniiIndiamultidrug resistancemotilityBioflim |
| spellingShingle | Saranya eVijayakumar Sangeetha eRajendran Shakti eLaishram Shalini eAnandan Veeraraghavan eBalaji Indranil eBiswas Biofilm formation and motility depend on the nature of the Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates Frontiers in Public Health Acinetobacter baumannii India multidrug resistance motility Bioflim |
| title | Biofilm formation and motility depend on the nature of the Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates |
| title_full | Biofilm formation and motility depend on the nature of the Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates |
| title_fullStr | Biofilm formation and motility depend on the nature of the Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biofilm formation and motility depend on the nature of the Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates |
| title_short | Biofilm formation and motility depend on the nature of the Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates |
| title_sort | biofilm formation and motility depend on the nature of the acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates |
| topic | Acinetobacter baumannii India multidrug resistance motility Bioflim |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00105/full |
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