Frecuencia de aislamiento y resistencia a los antimicrobianos de Acinetobacter spp. recuperadas de pacientes atendidos en un hospital universitario de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. / [Frequency and antimicrobial resistance of Acinetobacter species in a university hospital of Buenos Aires City].
Two-hundred Acinetobacter isolates belonging to 200 patients admitted to Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín during the period March 2013-June 2014 were analyzed. The identification was performed by mass spectrometry and was confirmed by molecular methods. Susceptibility to antimicrobials was studied by the Vitek-2 system. A 94 correlation of both identification methods was found. Multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii was the predominant genomic species (92.6 ) in hospital-acquired infections, whereas Acinetobacter pitti and Acinetobacter nosocomialis accounted for 3.5 and 0.5 of the isolates recovered, respectively. In community-acquired infections a major predominance of the different genomic species was observed. Acinetobacter johnsonii and A. baumannii are the most frequent species, accounting for 45.9 of the isolates recovered. Resistance to carbapenems and minocycline was only observed in A. baumannii. Mass spectrophotometry was an effective tool for the identification of the different genomic species.