Comparative genomic insights into carbapenem-resistant versus susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii in Shanghai hospital settings: a multi-center molecular surveillance study
Yue Zhang, Yanru Liang, Yuanping Wang, Yiying Xu, Ye Qiu, Bing Zhao, Yifeng Shen, Xiao Wang · 2026
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Zhang and colleagues surveyed hospital environments in Shanghai in 2026 for Acinetobacter baumannii, a germ that causes hard-to-treat infections, comparing drug-resistant and drug-sensitive strains. They collected 1,812 samples from ten medical sites in Pudong during the second half of 2024 and sequenced the genomes of what they found.
They detected 81 strains, and about forty percent resisted carbapenem antibiotics, a last-line drug class. Resistant strains clustered in intensive care units, which supplied over eighty percent of them, and often sat on items patients touch. One clone, ST2, dominated the resistant group, and nearly all resistant strains carried the same resistance gene. Sensitive strains stayed vulnerable to almost every drug tested. The authors urge targeted disinfection and clone tracking in intensive care.
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| CREATOR | Yue Zhang, Yanru Liang, Yuanping Wang, Yiying Xu, Ye Qiu, Bing Zhao, Yifeng Shen, Xiao Wang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |