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Emergence of polymyxin B-heteroresistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria
BACKGROUND: The heteroresistance of polymyxin B, a last-resort antibiotic used to treat many serious bacterial infections, may lead to antibiotic treatment failure. However, polymyxin B-heteroresistant isolates are rare in individuals living in the community. We report a polymyxin B-heteroresistant...
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author | Li, Jun Tang, Mengli Xia, Fengjun Min, Changhang Hu, Yongmei Wang, Haichen Zou, Mingxiang |
author_facet | Li, Jun Tang, Mengli Xia, Fengjun Min, Changhang Hu, Yongmei Wang, Haichen Zou, Mingxiang |
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description | BACKGROUND: The heteroresistance of polymyxin B, a last-resort antibiotic used to treat many serious bacterial infections, may lead to antibiotic treatment failure. However, polymyxin B-heteroresistant isolates are rare in individuals living in the community. We report a polymyxin B-heteroresistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) isolate from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria. RESULTS: The NYTJ35 isolate had multiple virulence genes that encoded a mucoid phenotype regulator (rmpA), aerobactin (iucABCD-iutA), salmochelin (iroBCDN), yersiniabactin (irp1–2 and ybtAEPQSTUX), and a truncated rmpA2. Infection of galleria mellonella larvae indicated the isolate was hypervirulent. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing showed it was susceptible to all tested antibiotics except polymyxin B. The proportion of surviving bacteria was 1.2 × 10(− 7) based on the population analysis profile (PAP) method, suggesting the presence of polymyxin B heteroresistance. The isolate was not hypermucoviscous, but it was a strong biofilm producer. It had capsular serotype K1 and belonged to sequence type 23 (ST23). The isolate also had the D150G substitution in phoQ, which is known to confer polymyxin B resistance. CONCLUSIONS: We identified the co-occurrence of hypervirulence and polymyxin B heteroresistance in a K. pneumoniae isolate from an individual with asymptomatic bacteriuria. We suggest the use of increased screening for hvKP in individuals living in the community. |
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spelling | pubmed-88188402022-02-07 Emergence of polymyxin B-heteroresistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria Li, Jun Tang, Mengli Xia, Fengjun Min, Changhang Hu, Yongmei Wang, Haichen Zou, Mingxiang BMC Microbiol Research BACKGROUND: The heteroresistance of polymyxin B, a last-resort antibiotic used to treat many serious bacterial infections, may lead to antibiotic treatment failure. However, polymyxin B-heteroresistant isolates are rare in individuals living in the community. We report a polymyxin B-heteroresistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) isolate from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria. RESULTS: The NYTJ35 isolate had multiple virulence genes that encoded a mucoid phenotype regulator (rmpA), aerobactin (iucABCD-iutA), salmochelin (iroBCDN), yersiniabactin (irp1–2 and ybtAEPQSTUX), and a truncated rmpA2. Infection of galleria mellonella larvae indicated the isolate was hypervirulent. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing showed it was susceptible to all tested antibiotics except polymyxin B. The proportion of surviving bacteria was 1.2 × 10(− 7) based on the population analysis profile (PAP) method, suggesting the presence of polymyxin B heteroresistance. The isolate was not hypermucoviscous, but it was a strong biofilm producer. It had capsular serotype K1 and belonged to sequence type 23 (ST23). The isolate also had the D150G substitution in phoQ, which is known to confer polymyxin B resistance. CONCLUSIONS: We identified the co-occurrence of hypervirulence and polymyxin B heteroresistance in a K. pneumoniae isolate from an individual with asymptomatic bacteriuria. We suggest the use of increased screening for hvKP in individuals living in the community. BioMed Central 2022-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8818840/ /pubmed/35130831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-022-02462-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Li, Jun Tang, Mengli Xia, Fengjun Min, Changhang Hu, Yongmei Wang, Haichen Zou, Mingxiang Emergence of polymyxin B-heteroresistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria |
title | Emergence of polymyxin B-heteroresistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria |
title_full | Emergence of polymyxin B-heteroresistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria |
title_fullStr | Emergence of polymyxin B-heteroresistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria |
title_full_unstemmed | Emergence of polymyxin B-heteroresistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria |
title_short | Emergence of polymyxin B-heteroresistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria |
title_sort | emergence of polymyxin b-heteroresistant hypervirulent klebsiella pneumoniae from an individual in the community with asymptomatic bacteriuria |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818840/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35130831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-022-02462-9 |
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