Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait.
Mycology Reference Laboratory, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2018 Mar 27;62(4). doi: 10.1128/AAC.01926-17. Print 2018 Apr.
Isolation of two echinocandin-resistant strains from endotracheal secretions of a patient following short-term exposure to caspofungin is described. Both strains exhibited resistance to echinocandins by Etest and reference broth microdilution, showing a homozygous S645P mutation within the hot spot 1 (HS-1) region of and belonging to a unique multilocus sequence type. Other isolates collected from patients in the same intensive care unit within a 60-day period were susceptible to echinocandins and contained wild-type sequences.
本文描述了一例患者在短期接触卡泊芬净后从气管分泌物中分离出两株棘白菌素耐药株。两株菌均通过 Etest 和参考肉汤微量稀释法对棘白菌素表现出耐药性,在 热点 1 (HS-1) 区域内存在 S645P 突变纯合子,属于独特的多位点序列型。在 60 天内同一重症监护病房中从其他患者中收集的其他 分离株对棘白菌素敏感,且包含野生型 序列。