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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Antimicrob Agents Chemother</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">aac</journal-id>
      <journal-title>Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-4804</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1098-6596</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>American Society for Microbiology</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="pmc">152494</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">0514</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1128/AAC.47.4.1382-1390.2003</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="pmid">12654674</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Mechanisms of Resistance</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Epidemiology of Rifampin ADP-Ribosyltransferase (<italic>arr-2</italic>) and Metallo-β-Lactamase (<italic>bla</italic><sub>IMP-4</sub>) Gene Cassettes in Class 1 Integrons in <italic>Acinetobacter</italic> Strains Isolated from Blood Cultures in 1997 to 2000</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Houang</surname>
            <given-names>Elizabeth T. S.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">*</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Chu</surname>
            <given-names>Yiu-Wai</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Lo</surname>
            <given-names>Wai-Sing</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Chu</surname>
            <given-names>Ka-Yi</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Cheng</surname>
            <given-names>Augustine F. B.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">Department of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin,<label>1</label> Public Health Laboratory Centre, Department of Health, Kowloon, <italic>Hong Kong, China</italic><label>2</label></aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn id="cor1">
          <label>*</label>
          <p>Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China. Phone: (852) 2632 2304. Fax: (852) 2647 3227. E-mail: <email>ehouang@cuhk.edu.hk</email>.</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <month>4</month>
        <year>2003</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>47</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>1382</fpage>
      <lpage>1390</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>13</day>
          <month>5</month>
          <year>2002</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>10</day>
          <month>9</month>
          <year>2002</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>1</month>
          <year>2003</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology</copyright-statement>
      <copyright-year>2003</copyright-year>
      <abstract>
        <p>We characterized two new gene cassettes in an <italic>Acinetobacter</italic> isolate: one harbored the metallo-β-lactamase (IMP-4) gene <italic>bla</italic><sub>IMP-4</sub>, the other harbored the rifampin ADP-ribosyltransferase (ARR-2) gene <italic>arr-2</italic>, and both arrayed with the aminoglycoside acetyltransferase [AAC(6′)-Ib<sub>7</sub>] gene cassette <italic>aacA4</italic> in two separate class 1 integrons. The epidemiology of these gene cassettes in isolates from blood cultures obtained from 1997 to 2000 was studied. Isolates bearing either the <italic>bla</italic><sub>IMP-4</sub> or the <italic>arr-2</italic> gene cassette or both represented 17.5% (10 of 57) of isolates in 1997, 16.1% (10 of 62) in 1998, 2.5% (1 of 40) in 1999, and 0% (0 of 58) in 2000. These two gene cassettes, probably borne on two separate integrons, were found in at least three genomic DNA groups, with evidence of clonal dissemination in the intensive care unit during 1997 to 1998. Seventeen of the 52 <italic>Acinetobacter baumannii</italic> (genomic DNA group 2) isolates from 1997 to 2000 harbored <italic>intI1</italic>, but only one was positive for these gene cassettes, whereas 20 of the 21 <italic>intI1</italic>-positive isolates of all other genomic DNA groups were positive for either or both of them. Reduced susceptibility to imipenem and rifampin was seen only in isolates harboring the <italic>bla</italic><sub>IMP-4</sub> and <italic>arr-2</italic> cassettes, respectively. The aminoglycoside phosphotransferase [APH(3′)-VIa] gene <italic>aph(3′)-VIa</italic> was detected in all 21 isolates for which the MIC of amikacin was ≥8 μg/ml, with or without <italic>aacA4</italic>, whereas <italic>aacA4</italic> alone was found in isolates for which the MIC of amikacin was 0.5 to 2 μg/ml. Significant differences between the 17 <italic>intI1</italic>-positive and 47 <italic>intI1</italic>-negative isolates belonging to genomic DNA group 3 from 1997 to 1998 in the MICs of amikacin, gentamicin, imipenem, sulfamethoxazole, and ceftazidime were observed (Mann-Whitney test, <italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.001 to 0.01).</p>
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      </abstract>
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