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Emergence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii as the major cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care unit patients at an infectious disease hospital in southern Vietnam

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Microbiology, July 2014
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Title
Emergence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii as the major cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care unit patients at an infectious disease hospital in southern Vietnam
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Journal of Medical Microbiology, July 2014
DOI 10.1099/jmm.0.076646-0
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Nguyen Thi Khanh Nhu, Nguyen Phu Huong Lan, James I Campbell, Christopher M Parry, Corinne Thompson, Ha Thanh Tuyen, Nguyen Van Minh Hoang, Pham Thi Thanh Tam, Vien Minh Le, Tran Vu Thieu Nga, Tran Do Hoang Nhu, Pham Van Minh, Nguyen Thi Thu Nga, Cao Thu Thuy, Le Thi Dung, Nguyen Thi Thu Yen, Nguyen Van Hao, Huynh Thi Loan, Lam Minh Yen, Ho Dang Trung Nghia, Tran Tinh Hien, Louise Thwaites, Guy Thwaites, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Stephen Baker

Abstract

Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is a serious hospital acquired infection that affects up to 30% of intubated patients on intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide. The aetiology of VAP is highly variable and can differ between countries, national provinces, and even between different wards in same hospital. We aimed to understand and document changes in the causative agents of VAP and their corresponding antimicrobial susceptibility profiles retrospectively over an 11 year-period in a major infectious disease hospital in southern Vietnam. Our analysis outlines a significant shift from Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Acinetobacter baumannii as the most prevalent bacteria isolated from tracheal aspirates in patients with VAP in this setting. Antimicrobial resistance was extensive across all bacterial species and we found a dramatic proportional annual increase in carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii over a three-year period from 2008 (annual trend; OR 1.656, p=0.010). We further investigated the emergence of carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, finding a blaNDM-1 positive isolate and a specific clone containing blaOXA23 and blaOXA51 that was positively associated with an upsurge in the isolation of this pathogen. Our work outlines the emergence of carbapenem resistant clone of Acinetobacter baumannii in Vietnam, and highlights a worrying trend in antimicrobial resistant Gram-negative bacteria circulating in this infectious disease hospital.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 103 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 14%
Researcher 15 14%
Student > Postgraduate 9 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 9%
Other 6 6%
Other 18 17%
Unknown 33 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 9 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Unspecified 4 4%
Other 15 14%
Unknown 38 36%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 November 2014.
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#16,048,318
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Medical Microbiology
#2,046
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#128,429
of 239,788 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Microbiology
#14
of 32 outputs
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