Dissemination of Quinupristin-Dalfopristin and Linezolid resistance genes among hospital environmental and healthy volunteer fecal isolates of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium.


Journal

Molecular biology reports
ISSN: 1573-4978
Titre abrégé: Mol Biol Rep
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0403234

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Aug 2022
Historique:
received: 23 02 2022
accepted: 19 05 2022
revised: 18 05 2022
pubmed: 19 6 2022
medline: 26 7 2022
entrez: 18 6 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Streptogramins and linezolid are important in the treatment of infections caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Then, we aimed to evaluate the resistance rates against these drugs and the prevalence of genes involved in hospital environmental and fecal normal-flora isolates of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium. The strains were isolated from the stool samples and hospital environments by culturing on M-Enterococcus (ME) agar, and identified by phenotypic and genotypic microbiological tests. The disk agar diffusion method was used to identify the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of the isolates. The genomic DNA extraction was done by the alkaline lysis method, and the PCR test was used to detect the resistance genes. A total of 145 enterococci isolates were taken, from which 84 (57.9%) isolates were detected as E. faecalis and 61 (42.06%) isolates were E. faecium. Moreover, 70 (83.33), 4 (4.76%), 1 (1.19%), and 40 (47.61%) isolates of E. faecalis and 20 (32.78%), 1 (1.63%), 4 (6.55%), and 26 (42.62%) E. faecium isolates were resistant against quinupristin-dalfopristin, linezolid, vancomycin, and erythromycin, respectively. Also, 112 (77.24%), 50 (34.48%), 39 (26.89%), 27 (18.62%), 19 (13.1%), 4 (2.75%), and 1 (0.68%) isolates were contained LsaA, vatD, vgbB, vatE, cfr, lsaE and optrA genes, respectively. None of the isolates carried the vgbA gene. High-level streptogramin resistance rate and high prevalence of resistance genes in enterococci isolated from the stool of healthy persons and the hospital environment indicates the importance of possible transmission of resistance genes from these isolates to clinical ones.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Streptogramins and linezolid are important in the treatment of infections caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
PURPOSE OBJECTIVE
Then, we aimed to evaluate the resistance rates against these drugs and the prevalence of genes involved in hospital environmental and fecal normal-flora isolates of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium.
METHODS AND RESULTS RESULTS
The strains were isolated from the stool samples and hospital environments by culturing on M-Enterococcus (ME) agar, and identified by phenotypic and genotypic microbiological tests. The disk agar diffusion method was used to identify the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of the isolates. The genomic DNA extraction was done by the alkaline lysis method, and the PCR test was used to detect the resistance genes. A total of 145 enterococci isolates were taken, from which 84 (57.9%) isolates were detected as E. faecalis and 61 (42.06%) isolates were E. faecium. Moreover, 70 (83.33), 4 (4.76%), 1 (1.19%), and 40 (47.61%) isolates of E. faecalis and 20 (32.78%), 1 (1.63%), 4 (6.55%), and 26 (42.62%) E. faecium isolates were resistant against quinupristin-dalfopristin, linezolid, vancomycin, and erythromycin, respectively. Also, 112 (77.24%), 50 (34.48%), 39 (26.89%), 27 (18.62%), 19 (13.1%), 4 (2.75%), and 1 (0.68%) isolates were contained LsaA, vatD, vgbB, vatE, cfr, lsaE and optrA genes, respectively. None of the isolates carried the vgbA gene.
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
High-level streptogramin resistance rate and high prevalence of resistance genes in enterococci isolated from the stool of healthy persons and the hospital environment indicates the importance of possible transmission of resistance genes from these isolates to clinical ones.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35716285
doi: 10.1007/s11033-022-07627-3
pii: 10.1007/s11033-022-07627-3
doi:

Substances chimiques

Anti-Bacterial Agents 0
Virginiamycin 11006-76-1
quinupristin-dalfopristin 126602-89-9
Agar 9002-18-0
Linezolid ISQ9I6J12J

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

7929-7937

Subventions

Organisme : Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
ID : 8421

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.

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Auteurs

Elham Boodaghi Malidareh (E)

Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.

Mohammad Ahanjan (M)

Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.

Saba Asgharzadeh Marghmalek (S)

Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.

Hamid Reza Goli (HR)

Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. goli59@gmail.com.
Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. goli59@gmail.com.

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