Genome Sequences of Two Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Strains Isolated from Southern India

Veeraraghavan Balaji; Sangeetha Rajenderan; Shalini Anandan; Indranil Biswas

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01010-15

Genome Sequences of Two Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Strains Isolated from Southern India

Genome Announc. 2015 Sep 10;3(5):e01010-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01010-15.

Authors

Veeraraghavan Balaji¹, Sangeetha Rajenderan¹, Shalini Anandan¹, Indranil Biswas²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
² Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA ibiswas@kumc.edu.

Abstract

Acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging nosocomial pathogen causing infections worldwide. In this study, we determined the genome sequences of two multidrug-resistant A. baumannii clinical strains isolated from a hospital in southern India. Genome analyses indicate that both the strains harbor numerous horizontally transferred genetic elements and antibiotic resistance cassettes.