Tibbetts R, Frye J G, Marschall J, Warren D, Dunne W
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63122, USA.
J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Sep;46(9):3080-3. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00979-08. Epub 2008 Jul 16.
An isolate of Proteus mirabilis recovered from blood cultures of a diabetic patient was shown to be resistant to imipenem, meropenem, and ertapenem by disk diffusion susceptibility testing. Amplification of whole-cell and/or plasmid DNA recovered from the isolate with primers specific for the bla(KPC) carbapenemase gene produced an amplicon of the expected size which was confirmed to be bla(KPC-2) by sequence analysis. Transformation of a susceptible Escherichia coli host with plasmid preparations from the isolate generated a transformant for which the MICs of all of the carbapenems tested were increased three- to fourfold. We believe this to be the first report of carbapenem resistance in P. mirabilis caused by the acquisition of bla(KPC).
从一名糖尿病患者血培养物中分离出的奇异变形杆菌,经纸片扩散药敏试验显示对亚胺培南、美罗培南和厄他培南耐药。用针对bla(KPC)碳青霉烯酶基因的特异性引物对从该分离株中回收的全细胞和/或质粒DNA进行扩增,产生了预期大小的扩增子,经序列分析证实为bla(KPC-2)。用该分离株的质粒提取物转化敏感的大肠杆菌宿主,产生了一个转化体,其对所有测试碳青霉烯类药物的最低抑菌浓度(MIC)增加了三到四倍。我们认为这是奇异变形杆菌因获得bla(KPC)而导致碳青霉烯耐药的首次报道。