Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To study the relationship between the ability of biofilm formation and the drug resistance of
Acinetobacter baumannii.
METHODS A total of 85 clinical
A.baumannii isolates were collected from Jul 2016 to Feb 2018, the drug susceptibility rates and the ability of biofilm formation of the strains were tested, and the biofilm-related genes of the
A.baumannii strains such as
bap, abaI, bfs, bfmS, bfmR, csuA, csuE and
csuAB were detected by using PCR.
RESULTS The drug resistance rates of the 85 strains of
A.baumannii to tigecycline, minocycline and cefoperazone-sulbactam were 11.76%, 23.53% and 25.88%, respectively; the drug resistance rates to ciprofloxacin and cefepime were the highest (71.76%).There were 58 (68.24%) strains of drug-resistant
A.baumannii (including multidrug-resistant strains and pandrug-resistant strains) and 27 (31.76%) strains of drug-sensitive
A.baumannii.All of the test strains had the ability of biofilm formation, and the ability of biofilm formation of the drug-sensitive strains was greater than that of the drug-resistant strains (
Z=-6.391,
P<0.001).The detection rates of
bfmS, bfmR, bfs, csuE, csuA, csuAB, abaI and
bap were 98.82%, 98.82%, 95.29%, 90.59%, 89.41%, 89.41%, 87.06% and 78.82%, respectively.The detection rates of
bap, abaI and
bfs of the drug-resistant strains were significantly higher than those of the drug-sensitive strains (
P<0.05); there were no significant differences in the detection rates of other genes between the two groups.
CONCLUSION The
A.baumannii strains are highly drug-resistant, the ability of biofilm formation of the drug-sensitive strains is greater than that of the drug-resistant strains, and multiple genes get involved in the formation of bacterial biofilm.