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Significant downtrend of antimicrobial resistance rate and rare β-lactamase genes and plasmid replicons carriage in clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Southern China
- Source :
- Microbial pathogenesis. 159
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Objectives Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a medically important pathogen showing intrinsic low permeability to various antimicrobial agents and its potential to acquire multiple resistance mechanism. A longitudinal surveillance aimed to investigate the antimicrobial resistance and its determinants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Southern China. A total of 2163 P. aeruginosa isolates were obtained from patients in Southern China during 2004–2016. Methods The antimicrobial susceptibility of the isolates was performed by disk diffusion and Vitek 2 automated system and interpreted according to the Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute (CLSI) 2015. Results A significant downtrend of resistant rate (>10.0%) was observed for tested antibiotic agents including ciprofloxacin (>30.0%), gentamicin (29.0%), tobramycin (24.2%) and ceftazidime (24.0%) except for aztreonam and amikacin. A total of 269 randomly selected isolates were further studied on the carriage of β-lactam resistance genes by using 7 groups of multiplex PCRs targeting on 20 genes. β-lactam resistance genes were rarely detected with a rate lower than 8%. Among all β-lactam resistance genes, blaSHV acquired the highest identification rate (18/269, 6.7%), followed by blaOXA-1-like (6/269, 2.2%) and blaPER (6/269, 2.2%). In addition, 8 different plasmid replicons were amplified using 8 groups of multiplex PCRs including 18 sets of primers. Only five plasmid replicons were identified in 5 different P. aeruginosa isolates. Insignificant clonal relatedness among the positive strains identified by regular PCR were further verified by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-PCR. Conclusion This study has provided comprehensive knowledge on current antimicrobial resistance, β-lactam resistance genes and plasmid replicons carriage in a large scale of clinical P. aeruginosa isolates.
- Subjects :
- Ceftazidime
Aztreonam
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Biology
medicine.disease_cause
Microbiology
beta-Lactamases
chemistry.chemical_compound
Plasmid
Antibiotic resistance
Drug Resistance, Bacterial
medicine
Tobramycin
Humans
Pseudomonas Infections
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Antimicrobial
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
Infectious Diseases
chemistry
Amikacin
Replicon
medicine.drug
Plasmids
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10961208
- Volume :
- 159
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Microbial pathogenesis
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....17e2d0964911bee3b243e4ba93a41c05