bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.08.331108; this version posted October 8, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Complete genome sequencing of Acinetobacter baumannii AC1633 2 and Acinetobacter nosocomialis AC1530 unveils a large multidrug 3 resistant plasmid encoding the NDM-1 and OXA-58 carbapenemases 4 5 Ahmed Ghazi Alattraqchi,a§ Farahiyah Mohd. Rani,a§ Nor Iza A. Rahman,a Salwani 6 Ismail,a David W. Cleary,b,c Stuart C. Clarke,b,c,d,e and Chew Chieng Yeoa# 7 8 aFaculty of Medicine, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, 9 Malaysia 10 bFaculty of Medicine and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, 11 Southampton, UK 12 cNIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton 13 NHS Trust, Southampton, UK 14 dGlobal Health Research Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 15 eSchool of Postgraduate Studies, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, 16 Malaysia 17 fCentre for Translational Research, IMU Institute for Research, Development and 18 Innovation (IRDI), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 19 20 Running title: Acinetobacter NDM-1 and OXA-58-encoding plasmid (48 characters) 21 Keywords: NDM-1, OXA-58, carbapenem resistance, Tn125, dif modules, 22 Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter nosocomialis, plasmids 23 24 #Corresponding author: 25 Chew Chieng Yeo, PhD., 26 Faculty of Medicine, 27 Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (Medical Campus), 28 Jalan Sultan Mahmud, 29 20400 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, 30 MALAYSIA. 31
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