Área de Microbiología, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 Nov;55(11):5376-9. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00716-11. Epub 2011 Aug 22.
A total of 10 metallo-β-lactamase-producing isolates of six different species, including Brevundimonas diminuta (n = 3), Rhizobium radiobacter (n = 2), Pseudomonas monteilii (n = 1), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (n = 2), Ochrobactrum anthropi (n = 1), and Enterobacter ludwigii (n = 1), were detected in the sewage water of a hospital. The presence of bla(VIM-13) associated with a Tn1721-class 1 integron structure was detected in all but one of the isolates (E. ludwigii, which produced VIM-2), and in two of them (R. radiobacter), this structure was located on a plasmid, suggesting that environmental bacteria represent a reservoir for the dissemination of clinically relevant metallo-β-lactamase genes.
在一家医院的污水中总共检测到了 10 株产金属β-内酰胺酶的分离株,分别属于 6 个不同的种,包括苍白杆菌(Brevundimonas diminuta,n = 3)、罗尔斯通氏菌(Rhizobium radiobacter,n = 2)、栖稻假单胞菌(Pseudomonas monteilii,n = 1)、铜绿假单胞菌(Pseudomonas aeruginosa,n = 2)、人源寡养单胞菌(Ochrobactrum anthropi,n = 1)和爱德华氏菌(Enterobacter ludwigii,n = 1)。除了一株(产 VIM-2 的爱德华氏菌)之外,所有分离株均携带 bla(VIM-13),与 Tn1721 类 1 整合子结构相关,其中两株(罗尔斯通氏菌)的该结构位于质粒上,这表明环境细菌是临床相关金属β-内酰胺酶基因传播的储库。