鲍曼不动杆菌多重耐药性与主动外排机制的相关性研究

目的 了解多重耐药鲍曼不动杆菌主动外排系统及双组分调节系统编码基因的携带情况,并观察外排泵抑制剂对多重耐药鲍曼不动杆菌耐药水平的影响程度,以探讨鲍曼不动杆菌多重耐药性与胞膜主动外排系统的关系.方法 PCR方法 扩增外排泵编码基因adeB及双组分调节系统编码基因adeR和adeS.采用琼脂稀释法测定50株多重耐药鲍曼不动杆菌对环丙沙星、阿米卡星、头孢噻肟和亚胺培南的最低抑菌浓度(MIC),并观察在含25μg/ml利血平条件下MIC值的变化程度.结果 50株多重耐药鲍曼不动杆菌adeB、adeR及adeS基因的携带率分别为94%、96%及92%.以环丙沙星、头孢噻肟、阿米卡星和亚胺培南作为底物,分别有49、50、50和46株菌在含25μg/ml利血平的条件下MIC值降低4倍或4倍以上,呈现明显的外排作用.结论 主动外排机制是本地区鲍曼不动杆菌多重耐药的重要原因之一.     

Comparison of efficacy of cefoperazone/sulbactam and imipenem/cilastatin for treatment of Acinetobacter bacteremia

Multiple antibiotic resistance threatens successful treatment of Acinetobacter baumannii infections worldwide. Increasing interest in the well-known activity of sulbactam against the genus Acinetobacter has been aroused. The purpose of this study was to compare the outcomes for patients with Acinetobacter bacteremia treated with cefoperazone/sulbactam versus imipenem/cilastatin. Forty-seven patients with Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia were analyzed through a retrospective review of their medical records for antibiotic therapy and clinical outcome. Thirty-five patients were treated with cefoperazone/sulbactam, and twelve patients with imipenem/cilastatin. The percentage of favorable response after 72 hours was not statistically different between cefoperazone/sulbactam group and imipenem/cilastatin group. The mortality rate was not statistically different, too. Cefoperazone/sulbactam was found to be as useful as imipenem/cilastatin for treating patients with Acinetobacter bacteremia.     

In vitro activity of tigecycline and comparators against gram-negative bacteria isolated from a tertiary hospital in Alexandria, Egypt

The emergence of infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria, in particular Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Klebsiella pneumoniae, has necessitated the search for alternative therapy by either introducing new agents or renewing interest in old agents. This study compares the in vitro activity of tigecycline (TIG), recently introduced to Egyptian market, to other potentially active antimicrobials as Colistin (COL), imipenem (IPM), levofloxacin (LEV), and piperacillin/tazobactam (PIP/TAZ) against 67 Gram-negative clinical isolates obtained from El- Meery Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt. El-Meery Hospital is a 1,500-bed tertiary teaching hospital where TIG has not been previously used. Based on MIC(90)s, TIG was found to be a comparator to IPM and COL (MIC(90)= 8?μg/ml). LEV and PIP/TAZ were less active than TIG exhibiting high MIC(90)s. TIG inhibited 100% of Escherichia coli and K. pneumoniae and 60% of Ps. aeruginosa and A. baumannii isolates. In time-kill studies against IPM-resistant isolates, TIG showed bactericidal activity after 6 hours of contact against the Enterobacteriaceae isolates and after 3 hours for the tested Ps. aeruginosa isolates at 4× and 8× MIC. Against A. baumannii, TIG exerted a bacteriostatic effect. TIG demonstrated variable ability to suppress biofilm formation affecting mainly E. coli and A. baumannii isolates. These results point TIG to be a promising agent in treatment of infections caused by strains for which adequate therapy has been limited. As far as we know, this is the first report evaluating the in vitro activity of TIG against Egyptian clinical isolates.     

Comparative analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility among organisms from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK as part of the tigecycline evaluation and surveillance trial.

As part of the tigecycline evaluation and surveillance trial (TEST), bacterial isolates were collected from 39 centres in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK between January 2004 and August 2006. Antimicrobial susceptibilities were determined according to CLSI guidelines. Italy had the highest rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (36.4%), and was the only country to report vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis (8.6%). Tigecycline was the only agent to which all Gram-positive isolates were susceptible. For many of the Gram-negative organisms collected, antimicrobial susceptibilities were lowest among isolates from Italy and highest among isolates from Spain. The notable exception was Acinetobacter baumannii, where the poorest susceptibility profile was among isolates from Spain. For A. baumannii, MIC(90)s of imipenem varied from 1 mg/L for isolates in France and Germany to > or =32 mg/L for isolates from Italy and Spain. Tigecycline was the only agent to maintain an MIC(90) of < or =1 mg/L against isolates from all five countries. The in-vitro activity of tigecycline against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative isolates may make it valuable in the treatment of hospital infections, including those caused by otherwise antimicrobial-resistant organisms.     

不同抗菌药物组合对多重耐药鲍曼不动杆菌的作用研究

目的 评价18组抗菌药物组合对临床分离的多重耐药鲍曼不动杆菌( MDRAB)的体外抗菌效应.方法 收集2009年10月-2010年5月首都医科大学附属北京友谊医院临床检验中心细菌室分离的非重复鲍曼不动杆菌,肉汤微量稀释法测定抗菌药物单药MIC,棋盘肉汤微量稀释法测定联合用药的部分抑菌浓度( FIC)值.根据FIC值判别药物组合的作用类型.对实验菌株,同一药物组合表现矛盾作用的,用PCR扩增其外排泵基因.结果 体外联合作用中利福平+多黏菌素B、亚胺培南+庆大霉素、头孢吡肟+左氧氟沙星协同作用比例大,分别达到68.1％、45.5％、40.9％,米诺环素+利福平、氨苄西林/舒巴坦+妥布霉素、头孢他啶+环丙沙星具有较高的相加作用,分别为81.8％、68.2％、68.2％.有些组合对实验菌株出现协同和拮抗的矛盾作用.选择协同作用的No.19和拮抗作用的No.21、No.26进行耐药基因扩增,基因型表现不同,其中No.19扩增adeS( -),No.21和No.26扩增adeS(+).结论 18种药物组合里利福平+多黏菌素B存在较高的协同作用,在严重MDRAB感染情况下可以考虑应用该组合.亚胺培南+庆大霉素、头孢吡肟+左氧氟沙星也具有较高的体外协同作用,但是在部分菌株的试验中存在拮抗作用,可能是由于菌株存在adeS基因,某些抗菌药物的应用会激活adeS,使外排泵表达或者过量表达,反而使进入细菌细胞内的药物被泵出,表现为拮抗作用.     

Molecular epidemiology of a clonal outbreak of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a university hospital in Italy

This study investigated the molecular epidemiology of a clonal outbreak of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii that occurred between June 2003 and June 2004 in a tertiary-care hospital in Naples, Italy. A. baumannii was isolated from 74 patients, of whom 38 were infected and 36 were colonised. Thirty-three patients had ventilator-associated pneumonia, three had hospital-acquired pneumonia, and two had sepsis. Genotypic analysis of 45 available A. baumannii isolates revealed two distinct pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns. Of these, PFGE pattern 1 was represented by isolates from 44 patients and was identical to that of an epidemic A. baumannii clone isolated in another hospital of Naples during 2002. All A. baumannii isolates of PFGE type 1 showed identical multiresistant antibiotypes, characterised by resistance to all antimicrobial agents tested, including carbapenems, with the exception of colistin. In these isolates, inhibition of OXA enzymes by 200 mM NaCl reduced the imipenem MIC by up to four-fold. Molecular analysis of antimicrobial resistance genes showed that all A. baumannii isolates of PFGE type 1 harboured a class 1 integron containing the aacA4, orfX and bla(OXA-20) gene cassettes, an ampC gene and a bla(OXA-51)-like allele. Moreover, a bla(OXA-58)-like gene surrounded by the regulatory elements ISAba2 and ISAba3 was identified in a 30-kb plasmid from A. baumannii isolates of PFGE type 1, but not PFGE type 2. Thus, selection of a single A. baumannii clone producing an OXA-58-type carbapenem-hydrolysing oxacillinase was responsible for the increase in the number of A. baumannii infections that occurred in this hospital.     

In vitro activities of tigecycline, ertapenem, isepamicin, and other antimicrobial agents against clinically isolated organisms in Taiwan

This study evaluated the in vitro activities of tigecycline, ertapenem, isepamicin, and other comparators against 861 bacterial isolates recovered from patients treated in three major teaching hospitals in 2003. MICs to antimicrobial agents were determined by the agar dilution method. High rates of oxacillin resistance (58%) in Staphylococcus aureus (60 isolates), and vancomycin resistance (21%) and quinupristin-dalfopristin non-susceptibility (39%) in Enterococcus faecium (34 isolates) were found. Carbapenems had excellent in vitro activities (>or=98% susceptibility) against the 419 isolates of Enterobacteriaceae, with the MIC(50) and MIC(90) of imipenem, meropenem, and ertapenem being 0.25 and 4 mg/L, 0.03 and 0.12 mg/L, and 0.03 and 0.5 mg/L, respectively. For, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (74 isolates) and Burkholderia cepacia (21 isolates), meropenem (MIC(90), 0.25, 2, and 4 mg/L, respectively) had better in vitro activities than imipenem (MIC(90), 8, 4, and 32 mg/L, respectively) and ertapenem (MIC(90), 0.5, >32, and 32 mg/L, respectively). Isepamicin had a similar activity with amikacin against all Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, B. cepacia, and Acinetobacter baumannii, except for C. freundii isolates in which isepamicin had an eight-fold activity better than amikacin. Tigecycline had excellent in vitro activities against all isolates tested (MIC(90), 相似文献   

Genotypic diversity and antibiotic susceptibility of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in a Bulgarian hospital

A set of 18 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, collected prospectively in a Bulgarian hospital during episodes of increased A. baumannii occurrence during 2000-2002, was investigated for genotypic diversity and antibiotic susceptibility. Four genotypes were identified by amplified fragment length polymorphism genomic fingerprinting, one of which (type 1) accounted for 13 isolates, indicating that a specific strain was predominant. The single isolate allocated to type 2 was identified to European clone I. All isolates were resistant to multiple antibiotics, but most retained susceptibility to tobramycin and colistin, and all except one were susceptible to imipenem.     

Multicentre survey of the in-vitro activity of seven antimicrobial agents, including ertapenem, against recently isolated Gram-negative anaerobic bacteria in Greece

The in-vitro activities of penicillin, ticarcillin-clavulanic acid, cefoxitin, imipenem, ertapenem, metronidazole and clindamycin were evaluated against 138 Gram-negative anaerobic isolates (82 Bacteroides fragilis group, 17 non-fragilis Bacteroides spp., 31 Prevotella spp., four Fusobacterium spp., two Veillonella spp., one Porphyromonas sp. and one Tissierella praeacuta) collected from six general hospitals in Athens, Greece. Overall rates of non-susceptibility (both resistant and intermediately-resistant) to penicillin and ticarcillin-clavulanic acid were 81.8% and 2.3%, respectively. The rates of non-susceptibility to cefoxitin and clindamycin were 30.3% and 31.1%, respectively, and that for metronidazole was 4.3% (four Prevotella spp. isolates, one Porphyromonas sp. isolate and one B. fragilis isolate). Only the single B. fragilis isolate was nim-positive by PCR. Only one B. fragilis isolate was resistant to both carbapenems tested, while six more Bacteroides spp. isolates were imipenem-susceptible and ertapenem-non-susceptible. The MIC range, MIC(50) and MIC(90) values were comparable for imipenem and ertapenem, although ertapenem MIC(90)s were one or two two-fold dilutions higher.     

鲍曼不动杆菌耐药性分析及AmpCβ-内酰胺酶基因研究

目的：了解临床标本分离的鲍曼不动杆菌（Acinetobacterbaumannii,Ab）对常见抗生素的耐药现状并研究Ab中质粒及染色体介导的AmpCp．内酰胺酶基因的分布特点。方法：应用VITEK．2微生物分析系统对中南大学湘雅医院2010年11月至2011年4月临床标本进行分离培养、鉴定和药物敏感性分析,采用PCR扩增方法对173株非重复AbblaMOX,blaCMY-2,blaDHA,blaACC,blaACT-1,blaFOX．blaADC六种耐药基因进行分析。结果：173株临床分离菌株对第一、三代头孢菌素,青霉素,磺胺类复合制剂及呋喃妥因的耐药率均超过70％;对喹诺酮类药物中左旋氧氟沙星、环丙沙星耐药率分别为23．7％和89．0％;对氨基糖苷类抗生素耐药率为58．4％～85．5％;对氨曲南的耐药率为51．4％;对碳青霉烯类、第四代头孢菌素及β-内酰胺β-内酰胺酶抑制剂复合物耐药率为8．7％～89．6％（其中耐药率最低的为头孢哌酮,舒巴坦）。173株Ab中携带blaADC基因的为154株f89．0％1,且产blaADC基因的菌株对头孢曲松、庆大霉素、妥布霉素、复方新诺明、环丙沙星、亚胺培南的耐药率高于不产blaADC基因的菌株,两组间差异具有统计学意义（P〈0．05）。未扩增出blaMOX,blaCMY-2,blaDHA,blaACC,blaACT．1,blaFOX五种耐药基因。结论：头孢哌酮／舒巴坦可作为治疗A6感染的推荐药物。产ADC型AmpCβ-内酰胺酶是A6菌株对头孢曲松、庆大霉素、妥布霉素、复方新诺明、环丙沙星、亚胺培南耐药的重要原因之一。     

Prevalence of OXA-type β-lactamases among Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Northwest of Iran

Carbapenems have been considered as last line antibiotics for treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii but carbapenem resistant A. baumannii has been increased during the last decade in many parts of the world. OXA-type β-lactamase enzymes are the most common cause of carbapenem resistance in A. baumannii and presence of ISAba1 in upstream of these genes may increase the expression of these OXA genes. The aim of this study was to determine, for the first time, the antibiotic resistance pattern and prevalence of OXA type β-lactamases among nosocomial A. baumannii isolates from northwest of Iran. A total of 100 A. baumannii isolates were recovered from hospitalized patients in a university hospital in northwest of Iran. Sixty-two percent of isolates were resistant to imipenem. All isolates carried bla(OXA-51)-like gene. Among imipenem resistant isolates, 88.7% carried bla(OXA-23)-like, 1.6% carried bla(OXA-40)-like, and 3.2% had bla(OXA-58)-like resistance genes. Ninety percent of isolates contained ISAba1 element and in 74.2% of imipenem resistant isolates, ISAba1 was located in upstream of bla(OXA-23)-like. The results of this study demonstrated high prevalence of OXA-type carbapenemase among MDR A. bumanii in the Northwest of Iran.     

Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic assessment of the in-vivo efficacy of imipenem alone or in combination with amikacin for the treatment of experimental multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia

A guinea-pig pneumonia model involving imipenem-susceptible and imipenem-resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii was developed to assess the in-vitro and in-vivo activities of imipenem, alone or in combination with amikacin, and the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters. Serum levels were measured by bioassay (imipenem) or immunoassay (amikacin), followed by calculation of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters (Cmax, AUC, t1/2, Cmax/MIC, AUC/MIC, and Deltat/MIC). In-vivo efficacy was evaluated by comparing bacterial counts in the lungs of treatment groups with end-of-therapy controls by anova and post-hoc tests. Decreases in the Cmax (13.4%), AUC (13%), t1/2 (25%) and Deltat/MIC (11.8-32.2%) of imipenem were observed when it was administered with amikacin, compared with administration of imipenem alone. Similarly, decreases in the Cmax (34.5%), AUC (11.6%), Cmax/MIC (34.5%) and AUC/MIC (11.7%) of amikacin were observed when it was administered with imipenem. Bacterial counts in lungs were reduced by imipenem (p 0.004) with the imipenem-susceptible strain, and by amikacin (p 0.001) with the imipenem-resistant strain. The combination of imipenem plus amikacin was inferior to imipenem alone with the imipenem-susceptible strain (p 0.01), despite their in-vitro synergy, and was inferior to amikacin alone with the imipenem-resistant strain (p < 0.0001). In summary, combined use of imipenem with amikacin was less efficacious than monotherapy, probably because of a drug-drug interaction that resulted in decreased pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters for both antimicrobial agents.     

Comparative in vitro activity of biapenem,a new carbapenem antibiotic

Biapenem is a new carbapenem antibiotic with high stability to human renal dehydropeptidase I. Its in vitro activity was compared with that of imipenem, meropenem, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, piperacillin and gentamicin against a total of 650 recent clinical isolates. MICs were determined by a standard agar dilution procedure and all isolates were tested at two inocula (10⁴ and 10⁶ cfu). Biapenem inhibited 90 % of isolates ofEscherichia coli, Klebsiella spp.,Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris, Morganella morganii, Providencia stuartii, Enterobacter spp.,Citrobacter freundii, Serratia marcescens, Salmonella typhi, Shigella sonnei andYersinia enterocolitica at 2 mg/l and was as active as or two- to four-fold more active than imipenem against all these species, with the exception ofSerratia marcescens, against which imipenem was two-fold more active. Biapenem was two-fold more active than imipenem againstPseudomonas aeruginosa (MIC90 4 mg/l) and had activity similar to that of imipenem against theBacteroides fragilis group (MIC90 0.5 mg/l) but was two-fold less active than imipenem against methicillin-susceptibleStaphylococcus aureus (MIC90 0.06 mg/l) and was, like imipenem, inactive against methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus.     

Doripenem vs meropenem against Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter

Recently, doripenem has been approved for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia (NP), including ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The E-test was performed to determine the MICs of doripenem and meropenem in 203 endotracheal aspirate isolates that consisted of 140 Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complexes and 63 Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Doripenem showed minimum concentration necessary for inhibition of 50% (MIC 50 ) of P. aeruginosa isolates at 0.38 mg/L which is several times (84.2 times) lower than the corresponding MIC 50 value of >32 mg/L for meropenem. The MIC 50 and MIC 90 were similar for both the drugs against A. baumannii. Thus, P. aeruginosa was consistently more susceptible than the A. baumannii.     

Emergence and spread of carbapenem-resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii in a tertiary-care hospital in Poland

This study analysed the occurrence of carbapenem resistance among Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from a tertiary-care hospital in Poland, together with the molecular epidemiology of these isolates and the risk-factors for their acquisition and possible nosocomial spread. The medical charts of 21 patients with Acinetobacter infection or colonisation revealed that A. baumannii isolates were obtained most frequently from intensive care unit and surgical patients (particularly those receiving transplantation surgery). First isolation occurred, on average, on day 21 following admission (range 5-45 days). Infection with Acinetobacter contributed directly to the death of seven patients. Several patients were infected with more than one strain, and molecular typing revealed the co-circulation of three predominant clones, of which two belonged to the Acinetobacter lineages designated as European clones I and II. All three clones encoded an OXA-51-type carbapenemase, but were negative for carbapenemases belonging to the OXA-23, OXA-24 and OXA-58 families. The OXA-51 gene was found in both resistant and susceptible isolates, and was not associated directly with carbapenem resistance. Etests with imipenem and imipenem plus EDTA indicated production of a metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL) in carbapenem-resistant isolates. PCRs for IMP-type MBLs were negative, but PCR using consensus primers for VIM-type MBLs were positive for carbapenem-resistant isolates belonging to the European clone II lineage. The occurrence of a VIM-type MBL in association with one of the epidemic lineages of A. baumannii is a cause for concern. Further studies are needed to evaluate possible inter-hospital spread of resistant A. baumannii strains in Poland.     

Morphological changes induced by imipenem and meropenem at sub-inhibitory concentrations in Acinetobacter baumannii

Abstract Sub-inhibitory concentrations of imipenem and meropenem were evaluated for their ability to induce morphological changes with six strains of Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from patients with nosocomial pneumonia. Three strains were susceptible and three were resistant to carbapenems. The strains were grown in the presence of 0 (controls), 0.25x, 0.5x and 1x the MIC of both carbapenems for 4 h, and then examined after Gram's stain. Cells > or = 3 microm in size (spheroplasts) were considered to be altered. Both carbapenems induced significant numbers of spheroplasts compared to controls. Imipenem had more effect against susceptible strains, while meropenem had a greater effect against resistant strains.     

Antimicrobial activity of doripenem and other carbapenems against gram-negative pathogens from Korea

A total of 950 gram-negative bacterial isolates from patients with bacteremia and urinary tract infections were collected from tertiary-care hospitals in Korea. In vitro antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed using broth microdilution test according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute protocol. In general, carbapenems such as doripenem, imipenem, and meropenem were very active against Enterobacteriaceae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Acinetobacter sp. isolates. Doripenem was more potent than imipenem against most Enterobacteriaceae species except Proteus spp. based on minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)(50) and MIC(90). In addition, doripenem displayed similar activity to meropenem but was superior to imipenem against ceftazidime-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates. For P. aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp. isolates, MIC(50)s of doripenem were 1 and 0.5 mg/L, respectively, which were the same with those of meropenem but two- to fourfold lower than those of imipenem (both 2 mg/L). On the basis of the in vitro data, we conclude that doripenem has equivalent or more activity than other carbapenems such as imipenem and meropenem against most gram-negative pathogens from Korea. Thus, doripenem may be a promising new antimicrobial agent for the treatment of infections caused by gram-negative pathogens in Korea.     

醋酸钙-鲍曼不动杆菌复合体的精确鉴定与药敏分析

目的精确鉴定醋酸钙-鲍曼不动杆菌复合体菌株;检测菌株对氨基糖苷类抗生素和碳青霉烯类抗生素的敏感性。方法运用自动化分析仪VITEK 2试卡法对临床分离不动杆菌进行菌种鉴定,对鉴定为醋酸钙-鲍曼不动杆菌复合体的菌株进一步经16S rRNA序列分析确证其准确种属。分别用自动化分析仪VITEK 2和微稀释法测定精确鉴定后的醋酸钙-鲍曼不动杆菌复合体菌株对阿米卡星、庆大霉素、妥布霉素、亚胺培南和厄他培南五种抗生素的敏感性,分析药敏实验结果。结果共进行了232株不动杆菌的VITEK 2鉴定,其中195株鉴定为醋酸钙-鲍曼不动杆菌复合体。对195株醋酸钙-鲍曼不动杆菌复合体菌株进一步用16S rRNA序列分析确证其准确种属,结果显示173株为鲍曼不动杆菌,22株为醋酸钙不动杆菌。对173株鲍曼不动杆菌及22株醋酸钙不动杆菌分别用VITEK 2和微稀释法进行阿米卡星、庆大霉素、妥布霉素、亚胺培南和厄他培南五种抗生素的药敏检测。微稀释法药敏结果显示,受试鲍曼不动杆菌对三种氨基糖苷类抗生素均呈现高水平耐药,而对两种碳青霉烯类抗生素敏感度较高;受试醋酸钙不动杆菌对五种抗生素均呈现较高敏感度。与微稀释法药敏检测结果相比,VITEK 2试卡法药敏结果中受试鲍曼不动杆菌和醋酸钙不动杆菌对各抗生素的药敏检测结果均出现了不同程度的误差,鲍曼不动杆菌药敏检测结果中阿米卡星符合率最低,严重错误率高达34.10%;醋酸钙不动杆菌药敏检测结果中厄他培南符合率最低,重大错误率高达40.91%。结论 VITEK 2在不动杆菌种属鉴定中存在局限性,辅以16S rRNA序列分析,方可精确鉴定醋酸钙-鲍曼不动杆菌复合体。鲍曼不动杆菌对氨基糖苷类抗生素耐药现状严重。用VITEK 2进行鲍曼不动杆菌和醋酸钙不动杆菌对氨基糖苷类和碳青霉烯类的药敏测定时存在不同程度的误差,建议辅以微稀释法。     

Oligonucleotide array-based identification of species in the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex in isolates from blood cultures and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of the isolates

Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, A. baumannii, Acinetobacter genomic species (gen. sp.) 3, and Acinetobacter gen. sp. 13TU, which are included in the A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex, are difficult to distinguish by phenotypic methods. An array with six oligonucleotide probes based on the 16S-23S rRNA gene intergenic spacer (ITS) region was developed to differentiate species in the A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex. Validation of the array with a reference collection of 52 strains of the A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex and 137 strains of other species resulted in an identification sensitivity and specificity of 100%. By using the array, the species distribution of 291 isolates of the A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex from patients with bacteremia were determined to be A. baumannii (221 strains [75.9%]), Acinetobacter gen. sp. 3 (67 strains [23.0%]), Acinetobacter gen. sp. 13TU (2 strains [0.7%]), and unidentified Acinetobacter sp. (1 strain [0.3%]). The identification accuracy of the array for 12 randomly selected isolates from patients with bacteremia was further confirmed by sequence analyses of the ITS region and the 16S rRNA gene. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of the 291 isolates from patients with bacteremia revealed that A. baumannii strains were less susceptible to antimicrobial agents than Acinetobacter gen. sp. 3. All Acinetobacter gen. sp. 3 strains were susceptible to ampicillin-sulbactam, imipenem, and meropenem; but only 67.4%, 90%, and 86% of the A. baumannii strains were susceptible to ampicillin-sulbactam, imipenem, and meropenem, respectively. The observed significant variations in antimicrobial susceptibility among different species in the A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex emphasize that the differentiation of species within the complex is relevant from a clinical-epidemiological point of view.     

Activities of various β-lactams and β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations against Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter DNA group 3 strains

Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter DNA group 3 are members of the so-called A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex and are important nosocomial pathogens. Multiresistance in these organisms is increasingly frequent, and alternative treatment options are needed. The beta-lactamase inhibitors clavulanate, sulbactam and tazobactam have intrinsic activity against Acinetobacter strains. In the present study, broth microdilution was used to assess the in-vitro activities of currently available beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combinations and sulbactam alone against 469 Acinetobacter isolates (A. baumannii, n=395; Acinetobacter DNA group 3, n=74) collected from various laboratories in Germany. Fixed concentrations and fixed ratios of beta-lactamase inhibitors were used. Sulbactam-containing combinations (susceptibility rates of 90.4-92.7% for A. baumannii and 97.3-100% for Acinetobacter DNA group 3) and sulbactam alone were superior to clavulanate- and tazobactam-containing combinations. The activity of sulbactam-containing combinations against members of the A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex was conferred exclusively by the intrinsic activity of the beta-lactamase inhibitor and did not result from enhanced beta-lactam activity. Testing with the inhibitor added at a fixed ratio of inhibitor to beta-lactam appeared to give more reliable results than testing at a fixed concentration of the inhibitor. Resistance to carbapenems (0.3%) remains low in Germany.