Wasels François, Kuehne Sarah A, Cartman Stephen T, Spigaglia Patrizia, Barbanti Fabrizio, Minton Nigel P, Mastrantonio Paola
Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Clostridia Research Group, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre, NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2015 Mar;59(3):1794-6. doi: 10.1128/AAC.04503-14. Epub 2014 Dec 22.
Point mutations conferring resistance to fluoroquinolones were introduced in the gyr genes of the reference strain Clostridium difficile 630. Only mutants with the substitution Thr-82→Ile in GyrA, which characterizes the hypervirulent epidemic clone III/027/NAP1, were resistant to all fluoroquinolones tested. The absence of a fitness cost in vitro for the most frequent mutations detected in resistant clinical isolates suggests that resistance will be maintained even in the absence of antibiotic pressure.
赋予对氟喹诺酮类药物耐药性的点突变被引入参考菌株艰难梭菌630的gyr基因中。只有在GyrA中发生苏氨酸-82→异亮氨酸取代的突变体对所有测试的氟喹诺酮类药物具有耐药性,这种取代是高毒力流行克隆III/027/NAP1的特征。在耐药临床分离株中检测到的最常见突变在体外不存在适应性代价,这表明即使在没有抗生素压力的情况下,耐药性也将得以维持。