Isolation of the first IMP-4 metallo-β-lactamase producing Klebsiella Pneumoniae in Tianjin, China

Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 917-922

  Li, Jing ^a   Hu, Zhidong ^a   Hu, Qiaojuan ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Integron; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Metallo lactamases

Indexed keywords

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84870661534     PISSN: 15178382     EISSN: 16784405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1517-83822012000300010     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Bennett, P.M. (1999). Integrons and gene cassettes: a genetic construction kit for bacteria. J Antimicrob Chemother.43(1):1-4.
2. Chu, Y.W.M.; Afzal-Shah, E.T.; Houang, M.I.; Palepou, D.J.; Lyon, N.; Woodford, D.M.; Livermore. (2001). IMP-4, a novel metallo-β-lactamase from nosocomial Acinetobacter spp. collected in Hong Kong between 1994 and 1998. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 45(3):710-4.
3. CLSI (2009). Performance standards for antimicrobial susceptibility testing; 19th informational supplement. CLSI standard M100-S19. Wayne, PA: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute.
4. Espedido, B.; Iredell, J.; Thomas, L.; Zelynski, A. (2005). Wide dissemination of a carbapenemase plasmid among gram-negative bacteria: implications of the variable phenotype. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43(9):4918-9.
5. Edelstein, M.; Pimkin, M.; Palagin, I.; Edelstein, I.; Stratchounski, L. (2003). Prevalence and molecular epidemiology of CTX-M extendedspectrum beta-Lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in Russian hospitals. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 47(12):3724-32.
6. Hall, R.M.; Collis, C.M. (1995). Mobile gene cassettes and integrons: capture and spread of genes by site-specific recombination. Mol Microbiol. 15(4):593-600.
7. Hawkey, P.M.; Xiong, J.; Ye, H.; Li, H.; M'Zali, F.H. (2001). Occurrence of a new metallo-_-lactamase IMP-4 carried on a conjugative plasmid in Citrobacter youngae from the People's Republic of China. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 194(1):53-7.
8. Koeleman, J.G.; Stoof, J.; Van Der Bijl, M.W.; Vandenbroucke-Grauls, C.M.; Savelkoul, P.H. (2001). Identification of epidemic strains of Acinetobacter baumannii by integrase gene PCR. J Clin Microbiol. 39(1):8-13.
9. Liu, Y.; Zhang, B.; Cao, Q.; Huang, W.; Shen, L.; Qin, X. (2009). Two clinical strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae carrying plasmid-borne blaIMP-4, blaSHV-12, and armA isolated at a Pediatric Center in Shanghai, China. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother.53(4): 1642-4.
10. Lee, K.; Chong, Y.; Shin, H.B.; Kim, Y.A.; Yong, D.; Yum, J.H. (2001). Modified Hodge and EDTA-disk synergy tests to screen metallo-betalactamase-producing strains of Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter species. Clin Microbiol Infect.7(2): 88-91.
11. Lévesque, C.; Piché, L.; Larose, C.; Roy, P.H. (1995). PCR mapping of integrons reveals several novel combinations of resistance genes. Antimicrob Agents Chemother.39(1):185-91.
12. Mazel, D. (2006). Integrons: agents of bacterial evolution. Nat Rev Microbiol.4(8):608-20.
13. Mendes, R.E.; Bell, J.M.; Tumidge, J.D.; Yang, Q.; Yu, Y.; Sun, Z.; Jones, R.N. (2008). Carbapenem-resistant isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae in China and detection of a conjugative plasmid (blaKPC-2 plus qnrB4) and a blaIMP-4 gene. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother.52(2): 798-9.
14. Morris, D.; O'Hare, C.; Glennon, M.; Maher, M.; Corbett-Feeney, G.; Cormican, M. (2003). Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in Ireland, including a novel enzyme, TEM-102. Antimicrob Agents Chemother.47(8):2572-8.
15. Peleg, A.Y.; Franklin, C.; Bell, J.M.; Spelman, D.W. (2005). Dissemination of the metallo-_-lactamase gene blaIMP-4 among gramnegative pathogens in a clinical setting in Australia. Clin. Infect. Dis. 41(11):1549-56.
16. Pai, H.; Lyu, S.; Lee, J.H.; Kim, J.; Kwon, Y.; Kim, J.W.; Choe, K.W. (1999). Survey of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in clinical isolates of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae: prevalence of TEM-52 in Korea. J Clin Microbiol. 37(6):1758-63.
17. P'erez-P'erez, F.J.; Hanson, N.D. (2002). Detection of plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamase genes in clinical isolates by using multiplex PCR. J Clin Microbiol. 40(6):2153-62.
18. Queenan, A.M.; Torres-Viera, C.; Gold, H.S.; Carmeli, Y.; Eliopoulos, G.M.; Moellering, R.C. Jr,; Quinn, J.P.; Hindler, J.; Medeiros, A.A.; Bush, K. (2000). SME-type carbapenem-hydrolyzing class A betalactamases from geographically diverse Serratia marcescens strains. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 44(11):3035-9.
19. Smith Moland, E.; Hanson, N.D.; Herrera, V.L.; Black, J.A.; Lockhart, T.J.; Hossain, A.; Johnson, J.A.; Goering, R.V.; Thomson, K.S. (2003). Plasmid-mediated carbapenem-hydrolysing beta-lactamase, KPC-2, in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates. J Antimicrob Chemother. 51(3):711-14.
20. Senda, K; Arakawa, Y.; Ichiyama, S.; Nakashima, K.; Ito, H.; Ohsuka, S.; Shimokata, K.; Kato, N.; Ohta, M.(1996). PCR detection of metallobeta-lactamase gene(blaIMP) in gram-negative rods resistant to broadspectrum beta-lactams. J Clin Microbiol. 34(12): 2909-13.
21. Shibata, N.; Doi, Y.; Yamane, K.; Yagi, T.; Kurokawa, H.; Shibayama, K.;Kato, H.; Kai, K.; Arakawa, Y. (2003). PCR typing of genetic determinants for metallo-b-lactamases and integrases carried by Gram negative bacteria isolated in Japan, with focus on the class 3 integron. J ClinMicrobiol.41(12): 5407-13.
22. Stokes, H.W.; Hall, R.M. (1989). A novel family of potentially mobile DNA elements encoding site-specific gene-integration functions: integrons. Mol Microbiol. 3(12): 1669-83.
23. Tsakris, A.; Pournaras, S.; Woodford, N.; Palepou, M.F.; Babini, G.S.; Douboyas, J.; Livermore, D.M. (2000). Outbreak of infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa producing VIM-1 carbapenemase in Greece. J Clin Microbiol. 38(3):1290-2.
24. Walsh, T.R. Toleman, M.A. Poirel, L.; Nordmann, P. (2005). Metallo-b-lactamases: the quiet before the storm? Clin Microbiol Rev, 18(2): 306-25.