1. Virulence and Resistance Determinants of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women from Two States in Mexico
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Rafael de la Rosa-López, Margarita M. P. Arenas-Hernández, Claudia F. Martinez de la Peña, Manuel G. Ballesteros-Monrreal, Patricia Lozano-Zarain, Armando Navarro-Ocaña, Yessica Enciso-Martínez, Ygnacio Martínez-Laguna, and Rosa del Carmen Rocha-Gracia more...
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0301 basic medicine ,Pharmacology ,Serotype ,medicine.drug_class ,030106 microbiology ,Antibiotics ,Virulence ,Biology ,urologic and male genital diseases ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,medicine.disease_cause ,Pathogenicity island ,Microbiology ,Agar plate ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Infectious Diseases ,Antibiotic resistance ,Multiplex polymerase chain reaction ,medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Escherichia coli - Abstract
Background/purpose Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) is the main cause of urinary tract infection (UTI) and it is known that pregnant women have a higher risk for UTI. UPEC has a variety of virulence and antibiotic resistance factors that facilitate its pathogenic success and it is crucial to know which are the susceptibility patterns, Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase (ESBL) production, virulence genes, pathogenicity islands (PAI), phylogenetic groups and serotypes among strains isolated from pregnant and non-pregnant women. Methods One hundred fifty UPEC strains were isolated from pregnant and non-pregnant women from two different Mexican states (Sonora and Puebla). Strains were analyzed using the Kirby-Bauer method for the determination of antibiotic susceptibility and ESBL. Virulence genes, PAIs and phylogenetic groups were determined using a multiplex PCR. Strains were serotyped by an agglutination assay. Blood agar and CAS agar were used for phenotypic assays. Results 92.7% of UPEC strains showed multidrug-resistant (MDR), 6.7% extremely-resistant (XDR) and 0.6% pandrug-resistant (PDR). The highest resistance was determined to be for β-lactam antibiotics (>72% in both states) and 44.5% of the UPEC strains were ESBL+. The predominant virulence genes found were fimH (100%), iucD (85%) and iha (60%). The strains isolated from pregnant women from Puebla presented a large percentage of genes associated with upper urinary tract infections. PAIs were found in 51% and 68% of the strains from Sonora and Puebla, respectively. All the strains were siderophores producers and 41.5% produced hemolysis. The serotypes found were diverse and belonged to phylogroups A, B2 and C. Conclusion The UPEC strains from this study are MDR with tendency to XDR or PDR, they can cause upper UTIs and are serotypically and phylogenetically diverse, which supports the need to develop new strategies for UTI treatment in pregnant and non-pregnant Mexican women. more...
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- 2020
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