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Calix JJ, de Almeida MCS, Potter RF, Wallace MA, Burnham CAD, Dantas G. Outpatient Clonal Propagation and Rapid Regional Establishment of an Emergent Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannnii Lineage Sequence Type 499Pas. J Infect Dis 2023; 227:631-640. [PMID: 36301240 PMCID: PMC10152498 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiac427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Revised: 09/29/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Eliminating carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAb) disease requires comprehensive knowledge of how this noncommensal organism propagates among at-risk hosts. We molecularly characterized an ongoing surge of CRAb cases among patients in a Midwest US healthcare system, which coincided with sustained reductions in hospital-acquired CRAb infections and falloffs of cases associated with distinctly more resistant antibiotypes. Genome sequencing revealed surge isolates belonged to an emergent Pasteur scheme sequence type 499 and comprised multiple contemporaneous clonal clusters. Detailed query of health records revealed no consistent hospital source but instead identified various outpatient healthcare settings linked to cluster cases. We show that CRAb can rapidly establish a regional presence even without gains in breadth of antibiotic resistance and negligible contribution from sustained intrahospital transmission. As CRAb lineages may sidestep control efforts via outpatient epidemiological niches, our approach can be implemented to investigate outpatient CRAb propagation and inform subsequent local surveillance outside hospital settings.
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Affiliation(s)
- Juan J Calix
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Calix JJ, Burnham JP, Feldman MF. Comparison of the Clinical Characteristics of Hospital-Acquired and Non-Hospital-Acquired Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii Complex in a Large Midwest US Health Care System. Open Forum Infect Dis 2019; 6:ofz423. [PMID: 31660377 PMCID: PMC6810278 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofz423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
We retrospectively compared the clinical characteristics of hospital-acquired (HA) vs non-hospital-acquired (nHA) Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex isolates in a large health care system in St. Louis, Missouri, from 2007 to 2017. More than 60% of the total isolates were nHA; they were predominantly from nonrespiratory sources and exhibited ~40% carbapenem resistance rates and stably persisted, though HA occurrence waned.
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Affiliation(s)
- Juan J Calix
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Burnham JP, Feldman MF, Calix JJ. Seasonal Changes in the Prevalence of Antibiotic-Susceptible Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii Complex Isolates Result in Increased Multidrug Resistance Rates During Winter Months. Open Forum Infect Dis 2019; 6:ofz245. [PMID: 31214631 PMCID: PMC6563941 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofz245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Temporal analysis of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex isolates in a large, US healthcare system demonstrated decreased occurrence of antibiotic-susceptible isolates between November and May, while resistant isolate occurrence was temporally stable. This resulted in 50%–100% seasonal increases of resistance rates. This work offers insight into the phenomenon of Gram-negative pathogen seasonality.
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- Jason P Burnham
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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