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Detection of class 1 integron in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates collected from nine hospitals in Turkey
Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Düzgün, Azer Özad; Saral, Ayşegül; Kayman, Tuba; ÇIzmecI, Zeynep; Balci, Pervin Özlem; Dal, Tuba; Fırat, Mehmet; Tosun, İsmail; Altıntop, Yasemin Ay; Çalışkan, Ahmet; Yazıcı, Yelda; Sandallı, Cemal (Elsevier, 2013)Objective: To investigate the antibiotic resistance genes inserted into class 1 and class 2 integrons in Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) isolates obtained from nine different cities in Turkey. Methods: A collection ... -
Determination of a novel integron-located variant (bla(OXA-320)) of class D beta-lactamase in Proteus mirabilis
Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Düzgün, Azer Özad; Saral, Ayşegül; Sandallı, Cemal (Wiley, 2014)Proteus mirabilis (P. mirabilis) is one of Gram-negative pathogens encountered in clinical specimens. A clinical isolate (TRP41) of P. mirabilis was isolated from a Turkish patient in Turkey. the isolate was identified ... -
Determination of antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factors in Escherichia coli isolated from Turkish patients with urinary tract infection
Düzgün, Azer Özad; Okumuş, Funda; Saral, Ayşegül; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Cinemre, Sedanur (Soc Brasileira Medicina Tropical, 2019)Introduction: Escherichia coli ranks among the most common sources of urinary tract infections (UTI). Methods: Between November 2015 and August 2016, 90 isolates of E coli were isolated from patients at Rize Education and ... -
Determination of the staphylococcal cassette chromosome in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from various clinical samples
Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Dinç Patlak, Rukiye; Sandallı, Cemal; Mengeloglu, Zafer; Kostakoğlu, Uğur; Yıldız, İlknur Esen (Science & Innovation, Ltd, 2016)Aim - the present study aimed to detect mecA and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) types in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates obtained from various clinical samples in two university ... -
Distribution of beta-lactamase genes among carbapenem-resistant klebsiella pneumoniae strains isolated from patients in Turkey
Iraz, Meryem; Düzgün, Azer Özad; Sandallı, Cemal; Doymaz, Mehmet Ziya; Akkoyunlu, Yasemin; Saral, Ayşegül; Peleg, Anton Y.; Özgümüş, Osman Birol; Beriş, Fatih Şaban; Karaoğlu, Hakan; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur (Korean Soc Laboratory Medicine, 2015)Background: the emergence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae poses a serious problem to antibiotic management. We investigated the beta-lactamases in a group of carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae clinical isolates ... -
Does prolidase indicate worsening of Hepatitis B infection?
Duygu, Fazilet; Aksoy, Nurten; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Bütün, İlknur; Ünlü, Şebnem (John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2013)Background Hepatitis B infection is a health problem that affects more than 400 million people all over the world. We aimed to evaluate the usability of prolidase enzyme that plays an important role in collagen synthesis. ... -
Effect of mazEF, higBA and relBE toxin-antitoxin systems on antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus isolates
Coşkun, Umut Safiye Say; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Kılınç, Çetin; Güçkan, Rıdvan; Dağcıoğlu, Yelda; Demir, Osman; Sandallı, Cemal (Med Coll Malawi, 2018)Background A toxin-antitoxin (TA) system is a set of two or more closely linked genes that are encoded as a poison and a corresponding antidote on a protein. in typical bacterial physiology, an antitoxin binds to a toxin ... -
Evaluating molecular epidemiology of carbapenem non-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates with MLST, MALDI-TOF MS, PFGE
İbik, Yunus Emre; Ejder, Nebahat; Sevim, Elif; Rakıcı, Erva; Tanrıverdi, Elif Seren; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur (SpringerNature, 2023)Background This study aimed to evaluate antibiotic resistance genes and virulence genes and the clonal relationship of the carbapenem-nonsusceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae strains by molecular methods which are isolated ... -
Evaluation of the carbapenem inactivation method for detection of carbapenemase-producing gram-negative bacteria in comparison with the RAPIDEC CARBA NP
Aktaş, Elif; Malkoçoğlu, Gülşah; Otlu, Barış; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Kulah, Canan; Cömert, Füsun; Sandallı, Cemal; Gürsoy, Nafia Canan; Erdemir, Duygu; Bulut, Mehmet Emin (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2017)Timely detection of carbapenemases by both phenotypic and genotypic methods is essential for developing strategies to control the spread of infections by carbapenem-resistant isolates and related morbidity and mortality. ... -
High prevalence of NDM metallo-β-lactamase among ESBL-producing Escherichia coli İsolates
Çetinkol, Yeliz; Sandallı, Cemal; Çalgın, Mustafa Kerem; Yıldırım, Arzu Altunçekiç; Akyıldız, Esma; Karaman, Esin; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur (Akademiai Kiado Zrt, 2017)Resistance to beta-lactams in Enterobacteriaceae has been increasing worldwide. This study aimed to determine the frequency of beta-lactamase genes and antibiotic resistance rates of 140 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase ... -
Investigation of class 1 integrons with antibiotic resistance genes in multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii strains and determination of plant extract effects on multidrug-resistant isolates
Saral, Ayşegül; Cinemre, Sedanur; Okumuş, Funda; Akar, Zeynep; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Düzgün, Azer Özad (Soc Stiinte Farmaceutice Romania, 2021)This study aimed to investigate the presence of resistance genes in multidrug-resistant A. baumannii isolates as well as to determine the antibacterial activity of selected plant extracts against isolates. 41 strains were ... -
Investigation of the clonal associations in Acinetobacter Baumannii strains isolated from the respiratory samples of patients in a tertiary research hospital
Özyurt, Songül; Kostakoğlu, Uğur; Yıldız, İlknur Esen; Ertürk, Ayşe; Sönmez, Emine; Şahin, Ünal; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur (Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020)Objective: the blaOXA resistance genes and ISAba1 were examined in 70 samples from lower respiratory tract of hospitalized patients. Materials and Methods: of the 67 isolates obtained, almost half (46.3%) of them were from ... -
Kinetic characterization of GES-22 beta-lactamase harboring the M169L clinical mutation
Saral, Ayşegül; Leonard, David A.; Düzgün, Azer Özad; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; June, Cynthia M.; Sandallı, Cemal (Japan Antibiotics Research Assoc, 2016)The class A p-lactamase GES-22 has been identified in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in Turkey, and subsequently shown to differ from GES-11 by a single substitution (M169L). Because M169 is part of the omega loop, a ... -
Klinik örneklerden izole edilen acinetobacter baumannii ve pseudomonas aeruginosa suşlarının sınıf 1 ve 2 integron taşıyıcılığı ve yeni bir gen kaseti birlikteliği: blaOXA-11-cmlA7
Mengeloğlu, Fırat Zafer; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Koçoğlu, Mücahide Esra; Sandallı, Cemal; Budak, Emine Esra; Özgümüş, Osman Birol (2014)Antibiyotik direnç genlerinin bakteriler arasındaki yayılımı, enfeksiyon hastalıklarının tedavisinde ciddi sorunlar oluşturmaktadır. Son zamanlarda bu genlerin integronlarda da taşındığı gösterilmiştir. Ülkemizde, Acinetobacter ... -
Molecular characterisation and control of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates resistant to multi-drugs emerging in inter-intensive care units
Ertürk, Ayşe; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Gümüş, Aziz; Cüre, Erkan; Şen, Ahmet; Kurt, Aysel; Karagöz, Alper; Aydoğan, Nebahat; Sandallı, Cemal; Durmaz, Rıza (BmcBMC, 2014)Background: A nosocomial outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii (AB) infections occurred among intensive care units (ICU) (surgery, medical, cardiovascular surgery, coronary unit) of Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Medical ... -
Molecular epidemiological analysis of integron gene cassettes and tetA/tetB/tetD gene associations in Escherichia coli strains producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) in urine cultures
Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Şemen, Vicdan; Ejder, Nebahat Aydoğan; Gündoğdu, Deniz Zehra Ulusan; Kalcan, Sema Koçyiğit; Köse, Fatma Tufan; Özgümüş, Osman Birol (Wroclaw Medical University, 2021)Background. Epidemiological studies of tetracycline (TE) resistance genes and integron gene cassettes, particularly in urine samples, are limited in Turkey. Objectives. To investigate antibiotic susceptibility profiles, ... -
A multicenter evaluation of blood culture practices, contamination rates, and the distribution of causative bacteria
Altındiş, Mustafa; Koroğlu, Mehmet; Demiray, Tayfur; Dal, Tuba; Özdemir, Mehmet; Şengil, Ahmet Zeki; Atasoy, Ali Rıza; Doğan, Metin; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Ece, Gülfem; Kaya, Selçuk; Iraz, Meryem; Gültepe, Bilge Sümbül; Temiz, Hakan; Demirkan, İdris; Aksaray, Sebahat; Çetinkol, Yeliz; Şahin, İdris; Güdücüoğlu, Hüseyin; Kılıç, Abdullah; Koçoğlu, Esra; Gülhan, Barış; Karabay, Oğuz (Ahvaz Jundishapur Univ Med Sci, 2016)Background: the prognostic value of blood culture testing in the diagnosis of bacteremia is limited by contamination. Objectives: in this multicenter study, the aim was to evaluate the contamination rates of blood cultures ... -
Nationwide study of Escherichia coli producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases TEM, SHV and CTX-M in Turkey
Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Saral, Ayşegül; Düzgün, Azer Özad; Yaşar, Ekrem; Çizmeci, Zeynep; Balcı, Pervin Özlem; Sarı, Fatma; Fırat, Mehmet; Altıntop, Yasemin Ay; Ak, Sibel; Çalışkan, Ahmet; Yıldız, Nazan; Sancaktar, Metin; Budak, Emine Esra; Ertürk, Ayşe; Özgüm, Osman Birol; Sandallı, Cemal (Nature Publishing Group, 2013)Four hundred and forty extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli isolates were collected from 10 different hospitals in Turkey between 2011 and 2012. Clinical specimens consisted of urine (80.45%), ... -
A Novel integron gene cassette harboring VIM-38 Metallo-beta-lactamase in a clinical pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate
Beriş, Fatih Şaban; Akyıldız, Esma; Düzgün, Azer Özad; Coşkun, Umut Safiye Say; Sandallı, Cemal; Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur (Korean Soc Laboratory Medicine, 2016)Dear Editor, Multidrug resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been attributed to both intrinsic and acquired antibiotic-resistance mechanisms. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) P. aeruginosa isolates have become a serious ... -
OXA- and GES-type beta-lactamases predominate in extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from a Turkish University Hospital
Çiçek, Ayşegül Çopur; Saral, Ayşegül; Iraz, Meryem; Ceylan, Ayşenur; Düzgün, Azer Özad; Peleg, Anton Y.; Sandallı, Cemal (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2014)We determined the antibiotic susceptibility and genetic mechanisms of resistance in clinical strains of Acinetobacter baumannii from Istanbul, Turkey. A total of 101 clinical strains were collected between November 2011 ...