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Induction of β-Lactamase Activity and Decreased β-Lactam Susceptibility by CO(2) in Clinical Bacterial Isolates
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of clinical isolates is a crucial step toward appropriate treatment of infectious diseases. The clinical isolate Francisella philomiragia 14IUHPL001, recently isolated from a 63-year-old woman with atypical pneumonia, featured decreased susceptibility to β-lactam...
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American Society for Microbiology
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5518270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28744482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00266-17 |
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author | Mullen, Nathan Raposo, Hugo Gudis, Polyxeni Barker, Linsey Humphries, Romney M. Schmitt, Bryan H. Relich, Ryan F. May, Meghan |
author_facet | Mullen, Nathan Raposo, Hugo Gudis, Polyxeni Barker, Linsey Humphries, Romney M. Schmitt, Bryan H. Relich, Ryan F. May, Meghan |
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description | Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of clinical isolates is a crucial step toward appropriate treatment of infectious diseases. The clinical isolate Francisella philomiragia 14IUHPL001, recently isolated from a 63-year-old woman with atypical pneumonia, featured decreased susceptibility to β-lactam antibiotics when cultivated in 5% CO(2). Quantitative β-lactamase assays demonstrated a significant (P < 0.0001) increase in enzymatic activity between bacteria cultivated in 5% CO(2) over those incubated in ambient air. The presence of β-lactamase genes bla(TEM) and bla(SHV) was detected in the clinical isolate F. philomiragia 14IUHPL001 by PCR, and the genes were positively identified by nucleotide sequencing. Expression of bla(TEM) and bla(SHV) was detected by reverse transcription-PCR during growth at 5% CO(2) but not during growth in ambient air. A statistically significant alkaline shift was observed following cultivation of F. philomiragia 14IUHPL001 in both ambient air and 5% CO(2), allowing desegregation of the previously reported effects of acidic pH from the currently reported effect of 5% CO(2) on bla(TEM) and bla(SHV) β-lactamases. To ensure that the observed phenomenon was not unique to F. philomiragia, we evaluated a clinical isolate of bla(TEM)-carrying Haemophilus influenzae and found parallel induction of bla(TEM) gene expression and β-lactamase activity at 5% CO(2) relative to ambient air. IMPORTANCE β-Lactamase induction and concurrent β-lactam resistance in respiratory tract pathogens as a consequence of growth in a physiologically relevant level of CO(2) are of clinical significance, particularly given the ubiquity of TEM and SHV β-lactamase genes in diverse bacterial pathogens. This is the first report of β-lactamase induction by 5% CO(2). |
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spelling | pubmed-55182702017-07-25 Induction of β-Lactamase Activity and Decreased β-Lactam Susceptibility by CO(2) in Clinical Bacterial Isolates Mullen, Nathan Raposo, Hugo Gudis, Polyxeni Barker, Linsey Humphries, Romney M. Schmitt, Bryan H. Relich, Ryan F. May, Meghan mSphere Research Article Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of clinical isolates is a crucial step toward appropriate treatment of infectious diseases. The clinical isolate Francisella philomiragia 14IUHPL001, recently isolated from a 63-year-old woman with atypical pneumonia, featured decreased susceptibility to β-lactam antibiotics when cultivated in 5% CO(2). Quantitative β-lactamase assays demonstrated a significant (P < 0.0001) increase in enzymatic activity between bacteria cultivated in 5% CO(2) over those incubated in ambient air. The presence of β-lactamase genes bla(TEM) and bla(SHV) was detected in the clinical isolate F. philomiragia 14IUHPL001 by PCR, and the genes were positively identified by nucleotide sequencing. Expression of bla(TEM) and bla(SHV) was detected by reverse transcription-PCR during growth at 5% CO(2) but not during growth in ambient air. A statistically significant alkaline shift was observed following cultivation of F. philomiragia 14IUHPL001 in both ambient air and 5% CO(2), allowing desegregation of the previously reported effects of acidic pH from the currently reported effect of 5% CO(2) on bla(TEM) and bla(SHV) β-lactamases. To ensure that the observed phenomenon was not unique to F. philomiragia, we evaluated a clinical isolate of bla(TEM)-carrying Haemophilus influenzae and found parallel induction of bla(TEM) gene expression and β-lactamase activity at 5% CO(2) relative to ambient air. IMPORTANCE β-Lactamase induction and concurrent β-lactam resistance in respiratory tract pathogens as a consequence of growth in a physiologically relevant level of CO(2) are of clinical significance, particularly given the ubiquity of TEM and SHV β-lactamase genes in diverse bacterial pathogens. This is the first report of β-lactamase induction by 5% CO(2). American Society for Microbiology 2017-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5518270/ /pubmed/28744482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00266-17 Text en Copyright © 2017 Mullen 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 Mullen, Nathan Raposo, Hugo Gudis, Polyxeni Barker, Linsey Humphries, Romney M. Schmitt, Bryan H. Relich, Ryan F. May, Meghan Induction of β-Lactamase Activity and Decreased β-Lactam Susceptibility by CO(2) in Clinical Bacterial Isolates |
title | Induction of β-Lactamase Activity and Decreased β-Lactam Susceptibility by CO(2) in Clinical Bacterial Isolates |
title_full | Induction of β-Lactamase Activity and Decreased β-Lactam Susceptibility by CO(2) in Clinical Bacterial Isolates |
title_fullStr | Induction of β-Lactamase Activity and Decreased β-Lactam Susceptibility by CO(2) in Clinical Bacterial Isolates |
title_full_unstemmed | Induction of β-Lactamase Activity and Decreased β-Lactam Susceptibility by CO(2) in Clinical Bacterial Isolates |
title_short | Induction of β-Lactamase Activity and Decreased β-Lactam Susceptibility by CO(2) in Clinical Bacterial Isolates |
title_sort | induction of β-lactamase activity and decreased β-lactam susceptibility by co(2) in clinical bacterial isolates |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5518270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28744482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00266-17 |
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