scholarly journals Characterization of Extensively Drug-Resistant or Pandrug-Resistant Sequence Type 147 and 101 OXA-48-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Causing Bloodstream Infections in Patients in an Intensive Care Unit

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. e02457-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalliope Avgoulea ◽  
Vincenzo Di Pilato ◽  
Olympia Zarkotou ◽  
Samanta Sennati ◽  
Leda Politi ◽  
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ABSTRACT Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae causes important health care-associated infections worldwide. An outbreak of sequence type 11 (ST11) OXA-48-producing K. pneumoniae (OXA-48-Kp) isolates occurred in Tzaneio Hospital in 2012 and was contained until 2014, when OXA-48-Kp reemerged. The present study involved 19 bloodstream infection (BSI) OXA-48-Kp isolates recovered from 19 intensive care unit (ICU) patients hospitalized between August 2014 and July 2016. MICs were determined by broth microdilution. Beta-lactamase genes were detected by PCR. All isolates were typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis/multilocus sequence typing (PFGE/MLST), and 10 representative isolates were typed by next-generation sequencing (NGS). Of the 19 study patients, 9 had previous hospitalizations, and 10 carried OXA-48-Kp prior to BSI isolation; median time from ICU admission to BSI was 29 days. Four OXA-48-Kp isolates belonged to PFGE profile A (ST147) and were pandrug resistant (PDR), while 15 isolates exhibited PFGE profile B (ST101) and were extensively drug resistant. Genes detected via NGS resistome analysis accounted for most of the resistance phenotypes, except for tigecycline and fosfomycin. Insertional inactivation of mgrB (distinct per clone) conferred colistin resistance in all 19 isolates. NGS single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis validated the clonal relatedness of the ST147 and ST101 strains and revealed the possible presence of two index ST147 strains and the microevolution of ST101 strains. Distinct, but highly related, IncL OXA-48-encoding plasmid lineages were identified; plasmids of the ST147 strains were identical with the plasmid of ST11 OXA-48-Kp which caused the 2012 outbreak. In conclusion, biclonal circulation of OXA-48-Kp and, alarmingly, emergence of a PDR clone are reported. These observations, along with the challenging phenotypic detection of OXA-48 producers and the high reported transmissibility of blaOXA-48, necessitate intensive efforts to prevent their further spread.

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peechanika Chopjitt ◽  
Thidathip Wongsurawat ◽  
Piroon Jenjaroenpun ◽  
Parichart Boueroy ◽  
Rujirat Hatrongjit ◽  
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ABSTRACT Here, we report the complete genome sequences of four clinical isolates of extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (XDRAB), isolated in Thailand. These results revealed multiple antimicrobial-resistant genes, each involving two sequence type 16 (ST16) isolates, ST2, and a novel sequence type isolate, ST1479.


2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. E117-E118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Anne Preas ◽  
Laurie Conway ◽  
Joan Hebden ◽  
Gwen Robinson ◽  
Mary Lee ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helio S. Sader ◽  
Rodrigo E. Mendes ◽  
Michael A. Pfaller ◽  
Dee Shortridge ◽  
Robert K. Flamm ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT A total of 10,451 contemporary (2016) Enterobacteriaceae isolates from 84 U.S. medical centers and 116 metallo-β-lactamase- and/or OXA-48-like-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates from other countries were tested against aztreonam-avibactam and comparators. All U.S. isolates were inhibited at aztreonam-avibactam MICs of ≤8 μg/ml (MIC50, ≤0.03 μg/ml; MIC90, 0.12 μg/ml), including Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing isolates (n = 102; MIC50, 0.25 μg/ml; MIC90, 0.5 μg/ml), multidrug-resistant isolates (n = 876; MIC50, 0.06 μg/ml; MIC90, 0.25 μg/ml), and extensively drug-resistant isolates (n = 111; MIC50, 0.12 μg/ml; MIC90, 0.5 μg/ml). The highest aztreonam-avibactam MIC value among ex-U.S. isolates was 4 μg/ml.


Author(s):  
Aymen Mabrouk ◽  
Yosra Chebbi ◽  
Anis Raddaoui ◽  
Asma Krir ◽  
Amen Allah Messadi ◽  
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AbstractExtensively drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (XDR-Ab), has emerged as an important pathogen in several outbreaks. The aim of our study was to investigate the eventual genetic relatedness of XDR-Ab strains recovered from burn patients and environment sites in the largest Tunisian Burn Intensive Care Unit (BICU) and to characterize β-lactamase encoding genes in these strains. Between March 04th, 2019 and April 22nd, 2019 an outbreak of XDR-Ab was suspected. Environmental screening was done. All isolates were screened by simplex PCR for β-lactamase genes. Genetic relatedness was determined by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of ApaI-digested total DNA. During the study period, 21 strains of A. baumannii were isolated in burn patients, mainly in blood culture (n = 7) and central vascular catheter (n = 6). All strains were susceptible to colistin but resistant to imipenem (n = 23), ciprofloxacin (n = 23), amikacin (n = 22), tigecyclin (n = 5) and rifampicin (n = 4). The blaOXA-51-like, blaOXA23, and blaADC genes were present in all strains. These resistance determinants were associated with blaPER-1 in 10 strains. The ISAba1 was inserted upstream of blaOXA-23 in all isolates. PFGE revealed two major clusters A (n = 11) and B (n = 5). This is the first description in Tunisia of clonally related PER-1 producing XDR-Ab in burn patients with probable environmental origin.


2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dingxia Shen ◽  
Guannan Ma ◽  
Cuidan Li ◽  
Xinmiao Jia ◽  
Chuan Qin ◽  
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ABSTRACT Here, we report a multidrug-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (MDR-HvKP) strain of sequence type 23 (ST23) with a rare hybrid plasmid harboring virulence genes and blaCTX-M-24, and we analyze the genetic basis for relationship between genotypes and MDR-hypervirulence phenotypes. Further analysis indicates that the hybrid plasmid is formed by IS903D-mediated intermolecular transposition of the blaCTX-M-24 gene into the virulence plasmid. The emergence of MDR-HvKP strains, especially those carrying drug-resistant virulent plasmids, poses unprecedented threats/challenges to public health. This is a dangerous trend and should be closely monitored.


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