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Multi-genomics studies (16S rRNA amplicon, metagenomics, and whole-genome sequencing [WGS]) of endotracheal deep aspirate (ETA) were performed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Fifty-two ICU patients were enrolled, including 24 with CRAB VAP (CRAB-I), 22 with CRAB colonization (CRAB-C), and six CRAB-negative patients (infection-free) (CRAB-N). Diversity of pulmonary microbiota was significantly lower in CRAB-I than in CRAB-C or CRAB-N (mean Shannon index, 1.79 vs. 2.73 vs. 4.81, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05). Abundances of 11 key genera differed between the groups. <jats:italic>Acinetobacter<\/jats:italic> was most abundant in CRAB-I (76.19%), moderately abundant in CRAB-C (59.14%), and least abundant in CRAB-N (11.25%), but its interactions with other genera increased in turn. Metagenomics and WGS analysis showed that virulence genes were more abundant in CRAB-I than in CRAB-C. Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) of 46 CRAB isolates revealed that the main types were ST208 (30.43%) and ST938 (15.22%), with no difference between CRAB-I and CRAB-C.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Lower respiratory tract microbiota dysbiosis including elevated relative abundance of <jats:italic>Acinetobacter<\/jats:italic> and reduced bacterial interactions, and virulence enrichment may lead to CRAB VAP.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2022.782210","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,4]],"date-time":"2022-03-04T10:41:11Z","timestamp":1646390471000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Comparative Respiratory Tract Microbiome Between Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Colonization and Ventilator Associated Pneumonia"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Tingting","family":"Xiao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qian","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanzi","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ping","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qiang","family":"Fang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mo","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shuntian","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lihua","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiao","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yulin","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chunhui","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaohui","family":"Chi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaoyang","family":"Kong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kai","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Beiwen","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qixia","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yunbo","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Huaiqiu","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yonghong","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"57","DOI":"10.1038\/nmeth.2276","article-title":"Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing.","volume":"10","author":"Bokulich","year":"2013","journal-title":"Nat. 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