Emergence of ST463 exoU-Positive, Imipenem-Nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates in China
This study investigated the resistance mechanisms and the distribution and proportions of virulence genes, including exoU, in 182 imipenem-nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa (INS-PA) strains collected from China in 2019. There was no obvious prevalent sequence type or concentrated evolutionary mu...
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author | Zhu, Ying Kang, Yue Zhang, Hui Yu, Wei Zhang, Ge Zhang, Jingjia Kang, Wei Duan, Simeng Xu, Yingchun Yang, Qiwen |
author_facet | Zhu, Ying Kang, Yue Zhang, Hui Yu, Wei Zhang, Ge Zhang, Jingjia Kang, Wei Duan, Simeng Xu, Yingchun Yang, Qiwen |
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description | This study investigated the resistance mechanisms and the distribution and proportions of virulence genes, including exoU, in 182 imipenem-nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa (INS-PA) strains collected from China in 2019. There was no obvious prevalent sequence type or concentrated evolutionary multilocus sequence typing (MLST) type on the INS-PA phylogenetic tree in China. All of the INS-PA isolates harbored β-lactamases with/without other antimicrobial mechanisms, such as gross disruption of oprD and overexpression of efflux genes. Compared with exoU-negative isolates, exoU-positive isolates (25.3%, 46/182) presented higher virulence in A549 cell cytotoxicity assays. The southeast region of China had the highest proportion (52.2%, 24/46) of exoU-positive strains. The most frequent exoU-positive strains belonged to sequence type 463 (ST463) (23.9%, 11/46) and presented multiple resistance mechanisms and higher virulence in the Galleria mellonella infection model. The complex resistance mechanisms in INS-PA and the emergence of ST463 exoU-positive, multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa strains in southeast China indicated a challenge that might lead to clinical treatment failure and higher mortality. IMPORTANCE This study investigates the resistance mechanisms and distribution and proportions of virulence genes of imipenem-nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa (INS-PA) isolates in China in 2019. Harboring PDC and OXA-50-like genes is discovered as the most prevalent resistance mechanism in INS-PA, and the virulence of exoU-positive INS-PA isolates was significantly higher than that of exoU-negative INS-PA isolates. There was an emergence of ST463 exoU-positive INS-PA isolates in Zhejiang, China, most of which presented multidrug resistance and hypervirulence. |
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spelling | pubmed-104340622023-08-18 Emergence of ST463 exoU-Positive, Imipenem-Nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates in China Zhu, Ying Kang, Yue Zhang, Hui Yu, Wei Zhang, Ge Zhang, Jingjia Kang, Wei Duan, Simeng Xu, Yingchun Yang, Qiwen Microbiol Spectr Research Article This study investigated the resistance mechanisms and the distribution and proportions of virulence genes, including exoU, in 182 imipenem-nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa (INS-PA) strains collected from China in 2019. There was no obvious prevalent sequence type or concentrated evolutionary multilocus sequence typing (MLST) type on the INS-PA phylogenetic tree in China. All of the INS-PA isolates harbored β-lactamases with/without other antimicrobial mechanisms, such as gross disruption of oprD and overexpression of efflux genes. Compared with exoU-negative isolates, exoU-positive isolates (25.3%, 46/182) presented higher virulence in A549 cell cytotoxicity assays. The southeast region of China had the highest proportion (52.2%, 24/46) of exoU-positive strains. The most frequent exoU-positive strains belonged to sequence type 463 (ST463) (23.9%, 11/46) and presented multiple resistance mechanisms and higher virulence in the Galleria mellonella infection model. The complex resistance mechanisms in INS-PA and the emergence of ST463 exoU-positive, multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa strains in southeast China indicated a challenge that might lead to clinical treatment failure and higher mortality. IMPORTANCE This study investigates the resistance mechanisms and distribution and proportions of virulence genes of imipenem-nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa (INS-PA) isolates in China in 2019. Harboring PDC and OXA-50-like genes is discovered as the most prevalent resistance mechanism in INS-PA, and the virulence of exoU-positive INS-PA isolates was significantly higher than that of exoU-negative INS-PA isolates. There was an emergence of ST463 exoU-positive INS-PA isolates in Zhejiang, China, most of which presented multidrug resistance and hypervirulence. American Society for Microbiology 2023-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10434062/ /pubmed/37314344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.00105-23 Text en Copyright © 2023 Zhu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Article Zhu, Ying Kang, Yue Zhang, Hui Yu, Wei Zhang, Ge Zhang, Jingjia Kang, Wei Duan, Simeng Xu, Yingchun Yang, Qiwen Emergence of ST463 exoU-Positive, Imipenem-Nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates in China |
title | Emergence of ST463 exoU-Positive, Imipenem-Nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates in China |
title_full | Emergence of ST463 exoU-Positive, Imipenem-Nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates in China |
title_fullStr | Emergence of ST463 exoU-Positive, Imipenem-Nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Emergence of ST463 exoU-Positive, Imipenem-Nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates in China |
title_short | Emergence of ST463 exoU-Positive, Imipenem-Nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates in China |
title_sort | emergence of st463 exou-positive, imipenem-nonsusceptible pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in china |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10434062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37314344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.00105-23 |
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