Interbacterial Transfer of Carbapenem Resistance and Large Antibiotic Resistance Islands by Natural Transformation in Pathogenic Acinetobacter

Multiple holins contribute to extracellular DNA release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

(2021) Amelia L. Hynen et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Pilus production in Acinetobacter baumannii is growth phase dependent and essential for natural transformation

(2021) Nina Vesel et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Accumulation of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates Belonging to Lineage 2, Global Clone 1, from Outbreaks in 2012–2013 at a Tehran Burns Hospital

(2020) Masoumeh Douraghi et al.   mSphere

Comparative Analysis of AbaR-Type Genomic Islands Reveals Distinct Patterns of Genetic Features in Elements with Different Backbones

(2020) Dexi Bi et al.   mSphere

Scarless removal of large resistance island AbaR results in antibiotic susceptibility and increased natural transformability in Acinetobacter baumannii.

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is capable of natural transformation in biofilms

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Acquisition of a genomic resistance island (AbGRI5) from global clone 2 through homologous recombination in a clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolate

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Increase in Hospital-Acquired Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection and Colonization in an Acute Care Hospital During a Surge in COVID-19 Admissions — New Jersey, February–July 2020

(2020) Stephen Perez et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Large-Scale Identification of AbaR-Type Genomic Islands in Acinetobacter baumannii Reveals Diverse Insertion Sites and Clonal Lineage-Specific Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Profiles

(2019) Dexi Bi et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Intercellular Transfer of Chromosomal Antimicrobial-resistance Genes between Acinetobacter baumannii Mediated by Prophages

(2019) Jun-ichi Wachino et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Mechanisms of DNA Uptake by Naturally Competent Bacteria

(2019) David Dubnau et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Neighbor predation linked to natural competence fosters the transfer of large genomic regions in Vibrio cholerae

(2019) Noémie Matthey et al.   eLife

High DNA Uptake Capacity of International Clone II Acinetobacter baumannii Detected by a Novel Planktonic Natural Transformation Assay

(2019) Yuan Hu et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Emergence, molecular mechanisms and global spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

(2019) Mohammad Hamidian et al.   Microbial Genomics

Identification of Novel Acinetobacter baumannii Type VI Secretion System Anti-Bacterial Effector and Immunity Pairs

(2018) Timothy C. Fitzsimons et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Fluorescence-based detection of natural transformation in drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

(2018) Anne-Sophie Godeux et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

ComM is a hexameric helicase that promotes branch migration during natural transformation in diverse Gram-negative species

(2018) Thomas M Nero et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Evolution via recombination: Cell-to-cell contact facilitates larger recombination events in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2018) Lauren A. Cowley et al.   PLoS Genetics

Acinetobacter in Veterinary Medicine with emphasis on A. baumannii

(2018) J.H. van der Kolk et al.   Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

The AbaR antibiotic resistance islands found in Acinetobacter baumannii global clone 1 – Structure, origin and evolution

(2018) Mohammad Hamidian et al.   DRUG RESISTANCE UPDATES

Origin of the AbGRI1 antibiotic resistance island found in the comM gene of Acinetobacter baumannii GC2 isolates

(2017) Mohammad Hamidian et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

PathogenicAcinetobacterspecies have a functional type I secretion system and contact-dependent inhibition systems

(2017) Christian M. Harding et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Role of Type VI Secretion System Effectors in Target Cell Lysis and Subsequent Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2017) Peter David Ringel et al.   Cell Reports

Unicycler: Resolving bacterial genome assemblies from short and long sequencing reads

(2017) Ryan R. Wick et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Intraspecies Transfer of the Chromosomal Acinetobacter baumanniiblaNDM-1Carbapenemase Gene

(2016) Thomas Krahn et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Clonal Spread of Acinetobacter baumannii Sequence Type 25 Carrying bla OXA-23 in Companion Animals in France

(2016) Agnese Lupo et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Explosive cell lysis as a mechanism for the biogenesis of bacterial membrane vesicles and biofilms

(2016) Lynne Turnbull et al.   Nature Communications

Genome dynamics of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii during infection and treatment

(2016) Meredith S. Wright et al.   Genome Medicine

AbaR-Type Genomic Islands in Non-baumannii Acinetobacter Species Isolates from South Korea

(2015) Dae Hun Kim et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Distribution of theblaOXA-23-containing transposons Tn2006and Tn2008in Australian carbapenem-resistantAcinetobacter baumanniiisolates: Figure 1.

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The type VI secretion system of Vibrio cholerae fosters horizontal gene transfer

(2015) S. Borgeaud et al.   SCIENCE

Differential Role of the T6SS in Acinetobacter baumannii Virulence

(2015) Guillermo D. Repizo et al.   PLoS One

VariantAnnotation: a Bioconductor package for exploration and annotation of genetic variants

(2014) V. Obenchain et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

The genetic basis of the fitness costs of antimicrobial resistance: a meta-analysis approach

(2014) Tom Vogwill et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Whole-Genome Sequence Analysis of the Naturally Competent Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolate A118

(2014) German M. Traglia et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A conjugative plasmid carrying the carbapenem resistance gene blaOXA-23 in AbaR4 in an extensively resistant GC1 Acinetobacter baumannii isolate

(2014) Mohammad Hamidian et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Comprehensive phenotypic characterization of rifampicin resistance mutations in Salmonella provides insight into the evolution of resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2014) Gerrit Brandis et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Bacterial transformation: distribution, shared mechanisms and divergent control

(2014) Calum Johnston et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Selection of a Multidrug Resistance Plasmid by Sublethal Levels of Antibiotics and Heavy Metals

(2014) E. Gullberg et al.   mBio

AB5075, a Highly Virulent Isolate of Acinetobacter baumannii, as a Model Strain for the Evaluation of Pathogenesis and Antimicrobial Treatments

(2014) A. C. Jacobs et al.   mBio

Spread of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Global Clone 2 in Asia and AbaR-Type Resistance Islands

(2013) Dae Hun Kim et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

The role of extracellular DNA in the establishment, maintenance and perpetuation of bacterial biofilms

(2013) Mira Okshevsky et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY

DNA Uptake by the Nosocomial Pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii Occurs during Movement along Wet Surfaces

(2013) G. Wilharm et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Genomic and Functional Analysis of the Type VI Secretion System in Acinetobacter

(2013) Brent S. Weber et al.   PLoS One

Acinetobacter baumannii Utilizes a Type VI Secretion System for Bacterial Competition

(2013) Michael D. Carruthers et al.   PLoS One

Exploring the costs of horizontal gene transfer

(2013) David A. Baltrus   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Acinetobacter baumannii Strain M2 Produces Type IV Pili Which Play a Role in Natural Transformation and Twitching Motility but Not Surface-Associated Motility

(2013) C. M. Harding et al.   mBio

Seventeen Sxy-Dependent Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein Site-Regulated Genes Are Needed for Natural Transformation in Haemophilus influenzae

(2012) S. Sinha et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

A statistical framework for SNP calling, mutation discovery, association mapping and population genetical parameter estimation from sequencing data

(2011) H. Li   BIOINFORMATICS

The Fitness Cost of Rifampicin Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Depends on Demand for RNA Polymerase

(2011) A. R. Hall et al.   GENETICS

AbaR-type transposon structures in Acinetobacter baumannii

(2011) Rémy A. Bonnin et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Genome-wide recombination drives diversification of epidemic strains of Acinetobacter baumannii

(2011) E. S. Snitkin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Whole-Genome Pyrosequencing of an Epidemic Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Strain Belonging to the European Clone II Group

(2008) M. Iacono et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Effect of DNase and Antibiotics on Biofilm Characteristics

(2008) G. V. Tetz et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY