Abdinasir Abdilahi

Mr. Abdinasir Abdilahi


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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12 March 2025 in Antibiotics
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IOIbukun Elizabeth Osadare
Ibukun Elizabeth Osadare
AAAbdinasir Abdilahi
Abdinasir Abdilahi
MRMartin Reinicke
Martin Reinicke
CDCelia Diezel
Celia Diezel
MCMaximilian Collatz
Maximilian Collatz
RERalf Ehricht
Ralf Ehricht
Background/Objectives: Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are one of the leading causes of antibiotic-resistant infections in the hospital setting worldwide, and this has become a major issue, because most patients infected with this strain are difficult to treat. Multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR) is an advantageous technique that can amplify multiple targets in a single reaction, and can be used to quickly detect specific targets in VRE within two hours, starting from suspected colonies of bacterial cultures, without sample preparation. Methods: In this study, we selected the glycopeptide/vancomycin resistance genes that are most common in clinical settings, vanA and vanB, in combination with the species markers ddl_faecium and ddl_faecalis for the most common VRE species—Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis. Results: DNA from forty clinical VRE strains was prepared using a fast and economic heat lysis method, and a multiplex real-time PCR assay was optimized and carried out subsequently. The results were in concordance with the results from recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) of the same VRE samples. Conclusions: Multiplex RT PCR and RPA for VRE detection proffers a second method for the confirmation of vancomycin resistance, and it can be developed as a fast screening assay for patients before admission into high-risk settings.