Volume 18, Number 3—March 2012
Letter
Carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter spp. in Cattle, France
Laurent Poirel
, Béatrice Berçot, Yves Millemann, Rémy A. Bonnin, Glenn Pannaux, and Patrice Nordmann
, Béatrice Berçot, Yves Millemann, Rémy A. Bonnin, Glenn Pannaux, and Patrice NordmannTable
Antimicrobial drug MICs for Acinetobacter genomospecies 15TU isolates from cows and reference strains, France, August 2010
| Drug class | MIC, μg/mL |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acinetobacter genomospecies 15TU |
Reference strain |
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| BY1 | BY2–BY9 | NIPH 2171 | NIPH 899 | ||
| Penicillins and combinations | |||||
| Amoxicillin | >256 | 128–256 | 4 | 4 | |
| Amoxicillin + CLA | >256 | 128–256 | 4 | 4 | |
| Cephalosporins | |||||
| Cefoxitin | 32 | 16–32 | 16 | 16 | |
| Cefotaxime | 32 | 16–32 | 8 | 6 | |
| Ceftazidime | 32 | 16–32 | 16 | 16 | |
| Cefepime | 16 | 4–16 | 4 | 4 | |
| Monobactam (aztreonam) | 64 | 32 | 32 | 16 | |
| Carbapenems | |||||
| Meropenem | 16 | 2–4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
| Imipenem | >32 | 4–6 | 0.25 | 0.25 | |
| Doripenem | 8 | 2–4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
| Cyclines | |||||
| Tetracycline | >256 | >256 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
| Tigecycline | 0.064 | 0.047–0.064 | 0.047 | 0.125 | |
| Quinolones (ciprofloxacin) | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.25 | 0.25 | |
| Aminoglycosides | |||||
| Gentamicin | 0.5 | 0.25–0.5 | 0.25 | 0.25 | |
| Kanamycin | >256 | >256 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
| Sulfonamides | 4 | 4 | 4 | >256 | |
*CLA, clavulanic acid (4 μg/mL).
