The (un)successful global spread of Acinetobacter baumannii ST3
Eradah Abu Sabah, Margaret M.C. Lam, Francois Lebreton, Patrick T. McGann, Mehrad Hamidian · 2026
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Eradah Abu Sabah and co-authors trace the travels of a hospital superbug lineage that never quite conquered the world, in a 2026 study. Acinetobacter baumannii sequence type 3 has surfaced on several continents, yet two sibling clones dominate globally. The team analyzed several hundred genomes from surveillance collections and public data. Family trees sorted the lineage into two great branches with many twigs.
Most genomes traced to the Middle East, the likely homeland or reservoir. The bug appeared in a dozen countries but stayed rare almost everywhere except Israel. Its core genome share matched its dominant cousins. Swaps of DNA with those cousins were extensive, and a resistance island rode in nearly every genome. The study explains a partial success story in bacterial spread.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Eradah Abu Sabah, Margaret M.C. Lam, Francois Lebreton, Patrick T. McGann, Mehrad Hamidian |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |