Emergence of Escherichia coli ST131 sub-clone H30 producing VIM-1 and KPC-3 carbapenemases, Italy

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2293-2296

  Accogli, Marisa ^a   Giani, Tommaso ^b   Monaco, Monica ^a   Giufré, Maria ^a   García Fernández, Aurora ^a   Conte, Viola ^b   D'Ancona, Fortunato ^a   Pantosti, Annalisa ^a   Rossolini, Gian Maria ^b,c,d   Cerquetti, Marina ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbapenems; Multidrug resistance; Multilocus sequence typing

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CARBAPENEMASE; CARBAPENEMASE KPC 3; CARBAPENEMASE VIM 1; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; RIFAMPICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE KPC-3, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; VIM-1 METALLO-BETA-LACTAMASE;

AGAR DIFFUSION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BROTH DILUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONJUGATION; EPSILOMETER TEST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; ITALY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING;

EID: 84904547938     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dku132     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Nordmann P, Dortet L, Poirel L. Carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae: here is the storm! Trends Mol Med 2012; 18: 263-72.
2. Giani T, Pini B, Arena F et al. Epidemic diffusion of KPC carbapenemaseproducing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Italy: results of the first countrywide survey, 15 May to 30 June 2011. Euro Surveill 2013; 18: pii=20489.
3. Rogers BA, Sidjabat HE, Paterson DL. Escherichia coli O25b-ST131: a pandemic, multiresistant, community-associated strain. J Antimicrob Chemother 2011; 66: 1-14.
4. Johnson JR, Tchesnokova V, Johnston B et al. Abrupt emergence of a single dominant multidrug-resistant strain of Escherichia coli. J Infect Dis 2013; 207: 919-28.
5. GiufréM, Accogli M, Farina C et al. Predominance of the fimH30 subclone among multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli strains belonging to sequence type 131 in Italy. J Infect Dis 2014; 209: 629-30.
6. Aschbacher R, Giani T, Corda D et al. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae during 2011-12 in the Bolzano area (Northern Italy): increasing diversity in a low-endemicity setting. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2013; 77: 354-6.
7. Lauretti L, Riccio ML, Mazzariol A et al. Cloning and characterization of blaVIM, a new integron-borne metallo-b-lactamase gene from a Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolate. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1999; 43: 1584-90.
8. Li G, Wei Q, Wang Y et al. Novel genetic environment of the plasmidmediated KPC-3 gene detected in Escherichia coli and Citrobacter freundii isolates from China. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2011; 30: 575-80.
9. Spanu T, De Angelis G, Cipriani M et al. In vivo emergence of tigecycline resistance in multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2012; 56: 4516-8.
10. Giufrè M, Graziani C, AccogliMet al. Escherichia coli of human and avian origin: detection of clonal groups associated with fluoroquinolone and multidrug resistance in Italy. J Antimicrob Chemother 2012; 67: 860-7.
11. Lau SH, Reddy S, Cheesbrough J et al. Major uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain isolated in the northwest of England identified by multilocus sequence typing. J Clin Microbiol 2008; 46: 1076-80.