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Dong X, Jia H, Yu Y, Xiang Y, Zhang Y. Genomic revisitation and reclassification of the genus Providencia. mSphere 2024; 9:e0073123. [PMID: 38412041 PMCID: PMC10964429 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00731-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024] Open
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Members of Providencia, although typically opportunistic, can cause severe infections in immunocompromised hosts. Recent advances in genome sequencing provide an opportunity for more precise study of this genus. In this study, we first identified and characterized a novel species named Providencia zhijiangensis sp. nov. It has ≤88.23% average nucleotide identity (ANI) and ≤31.8% in silico DNA-DNA hybridization (dDDH) values with all known Providencia species, which fall significantly below the species-defining thresholds. Interestingly, we found that Providencia stuartii and Providencia thailandensis actually fall under the same species, evidenced by an ANI of 98.59% and a dDDH value of 90.4%. By fusing ANI with phylogeny, we have reclassified 545 genomes within this genus into 20 species, including seven unnamed taxa (provisionally titled Taxon 1-7), which can be further subdivided into 23 lineages. Pangenomic analysis identified 1,550 genus-core genes in Providencia, with coenzymes being the predominant category at 10.56%, suggesting significant intermediate metabolism activity. Resistance analysis revealed that most lineages of the genus (82.61%, 19/23) carry a high number of antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs) and display diverse resistance profiles. Notably, the majority of ARGs are located on plasmids, underscoring the significant role of plasmids in the resistance evolution within this genus. Three species or lineages (P. stuartii, Taxon 3, and Providencia hangzhouensis L12) that possess the highest number of carbapenem-resistance genes suggest their potential influence on clinical treatment. These findings underscore the need for continued surveillance and study of this genus, particularly due to their role in harboring antibiotic-resistance genes. IMPORTANCE The Providencia genus, known to harbor opportunistic pathogens, has been a subject of interest due to its potential to cause severe infections, particularly in vulnerable individuals. Our research offers groundbreaking insights into this genus, unveiling a novel species, Providencia zhijiangensis sp. nov., and highlighting the need for a re-evaluation of existing classifications. Our comprehensive genomic assessment offers a detailed classification of 545 genomes into distinct species and lineages, revealing the rich biodiversity and intricate species diversity within the genus. The substantial presence of antibiotic-resistance genes in the Providencia genus underscores potential challenges for public health and clinical treatments. Our study highlights the pressing need for increased surveillance and research, enriching our understanding of antibiotic resistance in this realm.
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- Xu Dong
- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Jinan Microecological Biomedicine Shandong Laboratory, Jinan, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Key Laboratory of Clinical In Vitro Diagnostic Techniques of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Jinan Microecological Biomedicine Shandong Laboratory, Jinan, Guangzhou, China
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Gao M, Feng C, Ji Y, Shi Y, Shi W, Zhang L, Liu S, Li A, Zhang X, Li Q, Lu J, Bao Q, Zhang H. AadA36, a novel chromosomal aminoglycoside nucleotidyltransferase from a clinical isolate of Providencia stuartii. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:1035651. [PMID: 36386671 PMCID: PMC9663854 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1035651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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In this study, we characterized a novel chromosome-encoded aminoglycoside nucleotidyltransferase (ANT), AadA36, from the Providencia stuartii strain P14 isolated from the sputum specimen of a burn patient at a hospital in Wenzhou, China. Among the functionally characterized ANTs, AadA36 shared the highest amino acid sequence identity of 51.91% with AadA14. The whole genome of P. stuartii P14 consisted of one chromosome and two plasmids (designated pP14-166 and pP14-114). A total of 19 genes with ≥80% similarity with functionally characterized antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) were identified in the whole genome, including aminoglycosides [aac(2')-Ia, aph(6)-Id, aph(3″)-Ib, aac(6')-Ib, ant(3″)-IIa, aph(3')-Ia], β-lactams (bla CMY-2 and bla OXA-10) and so on. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing showed that the aadA36 gene conferred specific resistance to spectinomycin and streptomycin, and the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of these antimicrobials increased 128- and 64-fold compared with the control strain. The kinetic parameters of AadA36 were consistent with the MIC data of spectinomycin and streptomycin, with kcat /Km ratios of (1.07 ± 2.23) × 104 M-1 s-1 and (8.96 ± 1.01) × 103 M-1 s-1, respectively. The identification of a novel aminoglycoside resistance gene will help us further understand the complexity of the resistance mechanisms and provide deep insights into the dissemination of resistance genes in the microbial population.
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- Mengdi Gao
- Department of Children’s Respiration Disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China,Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics of Zhejiang Province, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, China, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics of Zhejiang Province, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, China, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Children’s Respiration Disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Children’s Respiration Disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics of Zhejiang Province, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, China, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics of Zhejiang Province, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, China, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics of Zhejiang Province, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, China, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics of Zhejiang Province, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, China, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Children’s Respiration Disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China,Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics of Zhejiang Province, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, China, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Children’s Respiration Disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China,Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics of Zhejiang Province, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, China, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Medical Molecular Biology Laboratory, School of Medicine, Jinhua Polytechnic, Jinhua, China
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- Department of Children’s Respiration Disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China,Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics of Zhejiang Province, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, China, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China,Medical Molecular Biology Laboratory, School of Medicine, Jinhua Polytechnic, Jinhua, China,*Correspondence: Qiyu Bao,
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- Department of Children’s Respiration Disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China,Hailin Zhang,
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Transposon Insertion Site Sequencing of Providencia stuartii: Essential Genes, Fitness Factors for Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection, and the Impact of Polymicrobial Infection on Fitness Requirements. mSphere 2020; 5:5/3/e00412-20. [PMID: 32461277 PMCID: PMC7253602 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00412-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Providencia stuartii is a common cause of polymicrobial catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), and yet literature describing the molecular mechanisms of its pathogenesis is limited. To identify factors important for colonization during single-species infection and during polymicrobial infection with a common cocolonizer, Proteus mirabilis, we created a saturating library of ∼50,000 transposon mutants and conducted transposon insertion site sequencing (Tn-Seq) in a murine model of CAUTI. P. stuartii strain BE2467 carries 4,398 genes, 521 of which were identified as essential for growth in laboratory medium and therefore could not be assessed for contribution to infection. Using an input/output fold change cutoff value of 20 and P values of <0.05, 340 genes were identified as important for establishing single-species infection only and 63 genes as uniquely important for polymicrobial infection with P. mirabilis, and 168 genes contributed to both single-species and coinfection. Seven mutants were constructed for experimental validation of the primary screen that corresponded to flagella (fliC mutant), twin arginine translocation (tatC), an ATP-dependent protease (clpP), d-alanine-d-alanine ligase (ddlA), type 3 secretion (yscI and sopB), and type VI secretion (impJ). Infection-specific phenotypes validated 6/7 (86%) mutants during direct cochallenge with wild-type P. stuartii and 3/5 (60%) mutants during coinfection with P. mirabilis, for a combined validation rate of 9/12 (75%). Tn-Seq therefore successfully identified genes that contribute to fitness of P. stuartii within the urinary tract, determined the impact of coinfection on fitness requirements, and added to the identification of a collection of genes that may contribute to fitness of multiple urinary tract pathogens.IMPORTANCE Providencia stuartii is a common cause of polymicrobial catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), particularly during long-term catheterization. However, little is known regarding the pathogenesis of this organism. Using transposon insertion site sequencing (Tn-Seq), we performed a global assessment of P. stuartii fitness factors for CAUTI while simultaneously determining how coinfection with another pathogen alters fitness requirements. This approach provides four important contributions to the field: (i) the first global estimation of P. stuartii genes essential for growth in laboratory medium, (ii) identification of novel fitness factors for P. stuartii colonization of the catheterized urinary tract, (iii) identification of core fitness factors for both single-species and polymicrobial CAUTI, and (iv) assessment of conservation of fitness factors between common uropathogens. Genomewide assessment of the fitness requirements for common uropathogens during single-species and polymicrobial CAUTI thus elucidates complex interactions that contribute to disease severity and will uncover conserved targets for therapeutic intervention.
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Rowan-Nash AD, Araos R, D'Agata EMC, Belenky P. Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Prevalence in a Population of Patients with Advanced Dementia Is Related to Specific Pathobionts. iScience 2020; 23:100905. [PMID: 32106056 PMCID: PMC7044522 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.100905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 01/10/2020] [Accepted: 02/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Long-term care facilities are significant reservoirs of antimicrobial-resistant organisms, and patients with advanced dementia are particularly vulnerable to multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) acquisition and antimicrobial overuse. In this study, we longitudinally examined a group of patients with advanced dementia using metagenomic sequencing. We found significant inter- and intra-subject heterogeneity in microbiota composition, suggesting temporal instability. We also observed a link between the antimicrobial resistance gene density in a sample and the relative abundances of several pathobionts, particularly Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, and Enterococcus faecalis, and used this relationship to predict resistance gene density in samples from additional subjects. Furthermore, we used metagenomic assembly to demonstrate that these pathobionts had higher resistance gene content than many gut commensals. Given the frequency and abundances at which these pathobionts were found in this population and the underlying vulnerability to MDRO of patients with advanced dementia, attention to microbial blooms of these species may be warranted.
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- Aislinn D Rowan-Nash
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias e Innovación en Medicina (ICIM), Facultad de Medicina Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile; Millenium Nucleus for Collaborative Research on Bacterial Resistance (MICROB-R), Santiago, Chile; Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), Facultad de Medicina Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
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- Infectious Diseases Division, Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
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Hawkey PM. The 2017 Garrod Lecture: Genes, guts and globalization. J Antimicrob Chemother 2018; 73:2589-2600. [PMID: 30085107 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dky277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The widespread use of antibacterial drugs over the last 70 years has brought immense benefits to human health at the price of increasing drug inefficacy. Antibacterial agents have a strong selective effect in both favouring resistant strains and allowing particular species and families of bacteria to prosper, especially in the healthcare setting. Whilst important Gram-positive bacterial pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae caused concern over the last 20 years because of the spread of antibiotic-resistant strains, Enterobacteriaceae have become the biggest challenge. They have very efficient mechanisms for genetic exchange, as illustrated by the emergence and rapid spread of CTX-M β-lactamases and the carbapenemases. The unique epidemiology of Enterobacteriaceae, with substantial numbers colonizing the mammalian gut and subsequent release into and spread in the environment, presents a significant threat to human health because of the high levels of exposure for the whole community. The use of antimicrobials in agriculture combined with global movements of people, animals and food, arising from worldwide industrialization, generates a diversity and level of resistance not seen previously. Control will require globally coordinated interventions similar to those needed to ameliorate climate change.
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- Peter M Hawkey
- Institute of Microbiology and Infection, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.,Department of Microbiology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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Wie SH. Clinical significance of Providencia bacteremia or bacteriuria. Korean J Intern Med 2015; 30:167-9. [PMID: 25750557 PMCID: PMC4351322 DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2015.30.2.167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2015] [Accepted: 02/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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- Seong-Heon Wie
- Department of Internal Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Suwon, Korea
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Wang X, Wang J, Hao H, Qiu L, Liu H, Chen S, Dang R, Yang Z. Pathogenic Providencia alcalifaciens Strain that Causes Fatal Hemorrhagic Pneumonia in Piglets. Curr Microbiol 2013; 68:278-84. [DOI: 10.1007/s00284-013-0470-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2012] [Accepted: 08/29/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Saida NB, Thabet L, Messadi A, Bouselmi K, Turki A, Boukadida J. Clonality of Providencia stuartii isolates involved in outbreak that occurred in a burn unit. Burns 2008; 34:829-34. [PMID: 18241997 DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2007.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2007] [Accepted: 09/30/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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In order to investigate an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Providencia stuartii that occurred in a burn unit, we analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) all isolates of P. stuartii collected during 4 months of 2005 from patients and from a tracheal aspirator. Seventeen clinical isolates of P. stuartii, extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing, were collected from 17 patients. All these isolates were nosocomially acquired. Three other isolates were collected from the aspirator probe, the aspirator reservoir and from the aspirator tube. Three different antibiotypes were identified without correlation with the genotype. Two PFGE types were obtained (types A and B) with predominance of one (type A) that was observed for 15 isolates. P. stuartii isolates collected from different components of the aspirator (probe, reservoir and tube) yielded PFGE type A. This study suggests the bi-clonality of the outbreak and that transmission of epidemic P. stuartii isolates was through a common source. The aspirator probe, contaminated from aspirator that functioned as a reservoir of bacteria, seems to be the route of transmission of P. stuartii. Furthermore, this study shows the utility of PFGE in typing for the purpose of understanding the epidemiological behaviour of P. stuartii and as a basis for the development of rational control strategies.
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- N Ben Saida
- Microbiology and Immunology Laboratory UR 16/02, CHU Farhat-Hached, avenue Ibn-Jazzar, Sousse, Tunisia
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Kim BN, Kim NJ, Kim MN, Kim YS, Woo JH, Ryu J. Bacteraemia due to tribe Proteeae: a review of 132 cases during a decade (1991-2000). SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2003; 35:98-103. [PMID: 12693558 DOI: 10.1080/0036554021000027015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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To characterize the clinical features of bacteraemia due to tribe Proteeae, 132 cases among 130 patients from 1991 to 2000 were analysed. The organisms included the Proteus species in 63 cases (P. mirabilis in 41, P. penneri in 2 and P. vulgaris in 20), the Providencia species in 8 (P. rettgeri in 3 and P. stuartii 5) and Morganella morganii in 61. Morganella bacteraemia occurred more frequently in the hospital (70.5%). Biliary and hepatic diseases were predominant in cases with Morganella bacteraemia while cardiovascular, urological and neurological diseases were more common in cases with Proteus bacteraemia. Biliary drainage catheters had more frequently been placed in cases with Morganella bacteraemia (39.3%, p < 0.001), and urinary catheters more frequently in cases with Proteus bacteraemia (17.5%). Biliary infection was most common in cases with Morganella bacteraemia (49.2%), while urinary tract infection (UTI) was most common in cases with Proteus bacteraemia (47.6%). Mortality directly related to bacteraemia due to tribe Proteeae was 20.8% (22.6, 50.0 and 15.0% for Proteus, Providencia and Morganella bacteraemia, respectively). In conclusion, Morganella bacteraemia was most frequently associated with biliary infection, while Proteus bacteraemia was most frequently with UTI. Providencia bacteraemia was relatively uncommon and it can be associated with infections other than UTI.
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- Baek-Nam Kim
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Daegu, Korea
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Urbanová E. Selective medium for primary isolation of members of the tribe Proteeae. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 2001; 44:629-34. [PMID: 11097023 DOI: 10.1007/bf02825652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A selective Proteeae medium (SPM) for isolation and preliminary detection of species of genera Proteus, Morganella, and Providencia was evaluated. The SPM contains tryptose phosphate agar with phenolphthalein monophosphate (as substrate for phosphatase activity), bile salts and polymyxin B (as inhibitors). The selectivity of the SPM was tested by the ecometric method of quality assurance of culture media. Fourteen reference cultures of enterobacteria and fifty-four strains of Proteeae were tested for their absolute growth index (AGI). Ninety-five percent of tested Proteeae strains display an AGI above 2.5. The detected phosphatase activity proved to be able to discriminate colonies of members of the tribe Proteeae. The ability of SPM for primary isolation of members of Proteeae was tested on food and clinical material and 94 strains were isolated. In addition, the SPM was employed in routine practice of clinical microbiology. From 1016 clinical samples (stool, urine, vaginal and urethral swabs), 57 strains of Proteeae were detected by the SPM in contrast to 35 strains by the routine procedure. The difference amounts to nearly 40%.
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- E Urbanová
- Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Kadavy DR, Hornby JM, Haverkost T, Nickerson KW. Natural antibiotic resistance of bacteria isolated from larvae of the oil fly, Helaeomyia petrolei. Appl Environ Microbiol 2000; 66:4615-9. [PMID: 11055901 PMCID: PMC92357 DOI: 10.1128/aem.66.11.4615-4619.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2000] [Accepted: 08/17/2000] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Helaeomyia petrolei (oil fly) larvae inhabit the asphalt seeps of Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles, Calif. The culturable microbial gut contents of larvae collected from the viscous oil were recently examined, and the majority (9 of 14) of the strains were identified as Providencia spp. Subsequently, 12 of the bacterial strains isolated were tested for their resistance or sensitivity to 23 commonly used antibiotics. All nine strains classified as Providencia rettgeri exhibited dramatic resistance to tetracycline, vancomycin, bacitracin, erythromycin, novobiocin, polymyxin, colistin, and nitrofurantoin. Eight of nine Providencia strains showed resistance to spectinomycin, six of nine showed resistance to chloramphenicol, and five of nine showed resistance to neomycin. All 12 isolates were sensitive to nalidixic acid, streptomycin, norfloxacin, aztreonam, cipericillin, pipericillin, and cefotaxime, and all but OF008 (Morganella morganii) were sensitive to ampicillin and cefoxitin. The oil fly bacteria were not resistant to multiple antibiotics due to an elevated mutation rate. For each bacterium, the number of resistant mutants per 10(8) cells was determined separately on rifampin, nalidixic acid, and spectinomycin. In each case, the average frequencies of resistant colonies were at least 50-fold lower than those established for known mutator strain ECOR 48. In addition, the oil fly bacteria do not appear to excrete antimicrobial agents. When tested, none of the oil fly bacteria produced detectable zones of inhibition on Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, or Candida albicans cultures. Furthermore, the resistance properties of oil fly bacteria extended to organic solvents as well as antibiotics. When pre-exposed to 20 microg of tetracycline per ml, seven of nine oil fly bacteria tolerated overlays of 100% cyclohexane, six of nine tolerated 10% xylene, benzene, or toluene (10:90 in cyclohexane), and three of nine (OF007, OF010, and OF011) tolerated overlays of 50% xylene-50% cyclohexane. The observed correlation between antibiotic resistance and organic solvent tolerance is likely explained by an active efflux pump that is maintained in oil fly bacteria by the constant selective pressure of La Brea's solvent-rich environment. We suggest that the oil fly bacteria and their genes for solvent tolerance may provide a microbial reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes.
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- D R Kadavy
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0666, USA
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Spiteller D, Dettner K, Bolan W. Gut bacteria may be involved in interactions between plants, herbivores and their predators: microbial biosynthesis of N-acylglutamine surfactants as elicitors of plant volatiles. Biol Chem 2000; 381:755-62. [PMID: 11030433 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2000.096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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N-Acylamino acids are dominant and widespread constituents of insect oral secretions (regurgitants), serving the insect as biosurfactants in the digestive process. During feeding the conjugates may be introduced into damaged leaves and contribute there to the elicitation of plant defenses such as the induction of volatile biosynthesis. From gut segments of Spodoptera exigua, Mamestra brassicae and Agrotis segetum 23 bacterial strains were isolated, ten of which were able to synthesise typical lepidopteran N-acylamino acids from externally added precursors. Four strains, Providencia rettgeri, Ochrobactrum spec., Myroides odoratus and Acinetobacter sp. genospecies 11 were identified on the basis of their 16 S rDNA. The organisms displayed a very broad substrate tolerance, since fatty acids of different chain length and different degree of saturation were converted into N-acylamino acids. Moreover, most of the proteinogenic amino acids, but not glutamic and aspartic acid, were used as substrates. The dominant occurrence of fatty acids conjugated with glutamine may result from a preferred transport of glutamine from the hemolymph into the gut of the insects. The involvement of bacteria in the biosynthesis of compounds which play a pivotal role in the interaction of plants, herbivores and their predators adds a new trophic level to this complex network of interactions. Due to their short generation cycle and the ease of adaptation endosymbiontic bacteria may have an outstanding importance for the coevolution of plant-insect interactions.
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- D Spiteller
- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Okologie, Jena, Germany
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Macinga DR, Paradise MR, Parojcic MM, Rather PN. Activation of the 2'-N-acetyltransferase gene [aac(2')-Ia] in Providencia stuartii by an interaction of AarP with the promoter region. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1999; 43:1769-72. [PMID: 10390241 PMCID: PMC89362 DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.7.1769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The aac(2')-Ia gene in Providencia stuartii encodes a 2'-N-acetyltransferase capable of acetylating both peptidoglycan and certain aminoglycoside antibiotics. Regulation of the aac(2')-Ia gene is influenced in a positive manner by the product of the aarP gene, which encodes a small transcriptional activator of the AraC (XylS) family. In this study, we demonstrate the sequence requirements at the aac(2')-Ia promoter for AarP binding and activation.
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- D R Macinga
- Departments of Medicine and of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Rather PN, Paradise MR, Parojcic MM, Patel S. A regulatory cascade involving AarG, a putative sensor kinase, controls the expression of the 2'-N-acetyltransferase and an intrinsic multiple antibiotic resistance (Mar) response in Providencia stuartii. Mol Microbiol 1998; 28:1345-53. [PMID: 9680222 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00900.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A recessive mutation, aarG1, has been identified that resulted in an 18-fold increase in the expression of beta-galactosidase from an aac(2')-lacZ fusion. Transcriptional fusions and Northern blot analysis demonstrated that the aarG1 allele also resulted in a large increase in the expression of aarP, a gene encoding a transcriptional activator of aac(2')-Ia. The effects of aarG1 on aac(2')-Ia expression were mediated by aarP-dependent and -independent mechanisms. The aarG1 allele also resulted in a multiple antibiotic resistance (Mar) phenotype, which included increased chloramphenicol, tetracycline and fluoroquinolone resistance. This Mar phenotype also resulted from aarP-dependent and -independent mechanisms. Sequence analysis of the aarG locus revealed the presence of two open reading frames, designated aarR and aarG, organized in tandem. The putative AarR protein displayed 75% amino acid identity to the response regulator PhoP, and the AarG protein displayed 57% amino acid identity to the sensor kinase PhoQ. The aarG1 mutation, a C to T substitution, resulted in a threonine to isoleucine substitution at position 279 (T279I) in the putative sensor kinase. The AarG product was functionally similar to PhoQ, as it was able to restore wild-type levels of maganin resistance to a Salmonella typhimurium phoQ mutant. However, expression of the aarP and aac(2')-Ia genes was not significantly affected by the levels of Mg2+ or Ca2+, suggesting that aarG senses a signal other than divalent cations.
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- P N Rather
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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Rather PN, Solinsky KA, Paradise MR, Parojcic MM. aarC, an essential gene involved in density-dependent regulation of the 2'-N-acetyltransferase in Providencia stuartii. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:2267-73. [PMID: 9079912 PMCID: PMC178963 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.7.2267-2273.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The 2'-N-acetyltransferase [AAC(2')-Ia] in Providencia stuartii has a dual function where it is involved in the acetylation of peptidoglycan and certain aminoglycosides. A search for negative regulators of the aac(2')-Ia gene has resulted in the identification of aarC. A missense allele (aarC1) resulted in an 8.9-fold increase in beta-galactosidase accumulation from an aac(2')-lacZ transcriptional fusion. Northern blot analysis demonstrated an increase in aac(2')-Ia mRNA accumulation that was specific to cells at high density. In addition, the aarC1 allele also resulted in a substantial increase in the expression of aarP, a transcriptional activator of the aac(2')-Ia gene. The wild-type aarC gene was isolated by complementation and encodes a predicted protein of 365 amino acids with a molecular mass of 39,815 Da. The predicted AarC protein exhibited 88% amino acid homology to the previously identified GcpE protein of Escherichia coli and 86% homology to a gene product from Haemophilus influenzae. The E. coli gcpE gene was able to functionally complement the aarC1 allele in P. stuartii. The aarC1 allele was identified as a T to G transversion that resulted in a valine to glycine substitution at position 136 in the AarC protein. The aarC gene appears to be essential for cell viability as construction of a disrupted copy (aarC::lacZ) was possible only in cells that carried an episomal copy of aarC or gcpE.
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- P N Rather
- Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Cornaglia G, Frugoni S, Mazzariol A, Piacentini E, Berlusconi A, Fontana R. Activities of oral antibiotics on Providencia strains isolated from institutionalized elderly patients with urinary tract infections. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1995; 39:2819-21. [PMID: 8593030 PMCID: PMC163040 DOI: 10.1128/aac.39.12.2819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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More than 250 Providencia strains isolated from the urine of institutionalized elderly patients were tested against cefaclor, cefuroxime, cefetamet, cefpodoxime, ciprofloxacin, and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid. Our results confirm the strong activities of expanded-spectrum oral cephalosporins against Providencia isolates, f1p4ell as the marked differences in susceptibilities among accurately identified Providencia species.
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- G Cornaglia
- Istituto di Microbiologia, Universitá degli Studi di Verona, Italy.
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Rahav G, Pinco E, Silbaq F, Bercovier H. Molecular epidemiology of catheter-associated bacteriuria in nursing home patients. J Clin Microbiol 1994; 32:1031-4. [PMID: 7913094 PMCID: PMC267175 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.32.4.1031-1034.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Urine samples from 19 nursing home patients with long-term urinary catheters were cultured every 3 months for 18 months. Providencia stuartii, present in 74% of the elderly and in 59% of urine specimens, was the most frequently isolated bacteria. The persistence of P. stuartii was significantly higher among females than among males. In order to study the epidemiology of bacteriuria in this nursing home, bacteria were characterized by biochemical tests, antibiotic susceptibility pattern, and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis. The antibiotic susceptibility pattern indicated that each patient had two to three different strains of P. stuartii during the 18 months of follow-up. In contrast, the RFLP analysis revealed that a specific strain had persisted in the urinary tract of the patient during the entire follow-up period. According to the biochemical profile, 74% of the patients had the same bacteria in urine cultures, pointing to a common source of transmission. RFLP analysis, however, demonstrated different patterns of RFLP, suggesting concomitant multiple sources of infection.
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- G Rahav
- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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Thaller MC, Berlutti F, Riccio ML, Rossolini GM. A species-specific DNA probe for Providencia stuartii identification. Mol Cell Probes 1992; 6:417-22. [PMID: 1474980 DOI: 10.1016/0890-8508(92)90036-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A DNA probe is described that can be used for identification of Providencia stuartii by means of filter hybridization assays. The probe, which is a fragment of the P. stuartii phoN gene coding for an acid phosphatase, appeared to be able to recognize only P. stuartii strains in slot-blot hybridization experiments performed with total DNA extracted from 545 strains of 64 different Gram-negative bacterial species, including all the major representatives of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Owing to the problems that may be often encountered for correct identification of P. stuartii at the species level when using commercial identification systems, this probe may result useful for fast and reliable identification of P. stuartii strains for taxonomical, epidemiological and diagnostic studies.
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- M C Thaller
- Istituto di Microbiologia, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Thaller MC, Berlutti F, Pantanella F, Pompei R, Satta G. Modified MacConkey medium which allows simple and reliable identification of Providencia stuartii. J Clin Microbiol 1992; 30:2054-7. [PMID: 1323575 PMCID: PMC265441 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.30.8.2054-2057.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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This work describes a modified MacConkey medium (MCP medium) enabling the simple identification of Providencia stuartii, an emerging nosocomial pathogen. A total of 813 strains, belonging to the families Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonadaceae, were tested on MCP medium; all P. stuartii strains were phosphatase positive, as were 97.5% of Morganella morganii strains, in contrast with all other tested organisms. A simple discriminating test, such as the ornithine or citrate test, allowed identification of strains of these species. We have also compared the reliabilities of P. stuartii identification by commercial kits (API 20E system) by using a standard MacConkey or MCP medium. Sixteen and three-tenths percent of P. stuartii strains were misidentified by using the former procedure, while with the latter all strains were correctly identified. Finally, the MCP medium was used over a 6-month period in our routine clinical laboratory. Of a total of 1,278 seeded urine samples from elderly patients, we isolated 103 P. stuartii strains which were all correctly identified by coupling MCP medium and the API 20E system. Seventeen and one-half percent of these strains were misidentified when the API 20E system was used in combination with standard MacConkey medium.
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- M C Thaller
- Istituto di Microbiologia, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Pompei R, Cornaglia G, Ingianni A, Satta G. Use of a novel phosphatase test for simplified identification of species of the tribe Proteeae. J Clin Microbiol 1990; 28:1214-8. [PMID: 2166077 PMCID: PMC267907 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.28.6.1214-1218.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Phosphatase activity of 334 isolates of the tribe Proteeae carefully identified to species level has been evaluated by using both a number of conventional tests and three versions of the novel methyl green-phenolphthalein (MGP) method (G. Satta. R. Pompei, G. Grazi, and G. Cornaglia, J. Clin. Microbiol. 26:2637-2641, 1988). We found that the different species of Proteeae show different and easily distinguishable. behaviors by the MGP method, while all of them behave in a uniform way in the conventional tests. On studying the mechanism underlying these different behaviors, we found that the phosphatase activity of Morganella morganii and Providencia stuartii is higher than that of all other members of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Furthermore, we found that all P. stuartii strains display the property (shared by virtually none of the other species of Enterobacteriaceae) of excreting significant amounts of phosphatase. This extracellular activity is reliably detected by the MGP method but not by conventional tests. Finally, by exploiting the peculiar phosphatase activity of this tribe, as revealed by the MGP method, we devised a simple scheme for routine identification of the species of Proteeae and evaluated its reliability by comparing it with three commonly used commercial kits. The new scheme proved much simpler, but also more reliable, since identifications obtained by this method were in almost complete accord (99%) with those of the reference identification schemes, while in the commercial systems examined the percentage of errors ranged from 13 to 14 in the identification of Providencia species.
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- R Pompei
- Istituto di Microbiologia, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy
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Costas M, Holmes B, Wood AC. Numerical analysis of electrophoretic protein patterns of Providencia stuartii strains from urine, wound and other clinical sources. THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY 1990; 68:505-18. [PMID: 2370236 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1990.tb02903.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Eighty-six strains of Providencia stuartii (mainly of human origin) were characterized by one-dimensional SDS-PAGE of cellular proteins. The strains came from various countries; 52 were from urine, 11 from wounds, five from blood (one of these also from urine), four from ear infections, two each from faeces and sputum, one from 'alimentation' and nine from unknown sources. The protein patterns, which contained 45 to 50 discrete bands, were highly reproducible. The patterns of 46 Prov. stuartii strains (selected to represent the full range of protein pattern diversity) plus those of the type strains of the four other Providencia species were used as the basis for two numerical analyses. In the first, which included all the protein bands, the Prov. stuartii strains formed 13 clusters at the 88% S level. In the second analysis, in which the principal protein bands (in the 33.8-40.7 kDa range) were excluded, 45 of the 46 Prov. stuartii strains formed a single cluster at the 82% S level, whilst the four Providencia reference strains remained unclustered. The 40 strains of Prov. stuartii not included in the cluster analysis were assigned to a protein type by calculating their similarity with the strains in the database used for the cluster analysis. We conclude that high resolution PAGE combined with computerized analysis of protein patterns provides the basis for typing clinical strains of Prov. stuartii. Reference strains of each of the 13 PAGE types identified are available from NCTC for inclusion in future studies.
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- M Costas
- National Collection of Type Cultures, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, UK
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Owen RJ, Beck A, Dayal PA, Dawson C. Detection of genomic variation in Providencia stuartii clinical isolates by analysis of DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms containing rRNA cistrons. J Clin Microbiol 1988; 26:2161-6. [PMID: 2903175 PMCID: PMC266837 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.26.10.2161-2166.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Chromosomal DNA from 26 strains of Providencia stuartii isolated mainly in hospitals in the United Kingdom and reference strains of P. stuartii, P. rustigianii, and Proteus vulgaris were digested with the restriction endonucleases EcoRI and HindIII. After electrophoresis in agarose gels, the fragments were subjected to Southern blot hybridization analysis with a biotin-labeled cDNA probe transcribed from a mixture of 16S and 23S rRNA from P. stuartii NCTC 11800T. The pattern of bands (the rDNA fingerprint), which depended on restriction fragment length polymorphisms containing rRNA genes, was used as a measure of minor genomic variation within and between species. The P. stuartii clinical isolates had similar total digest patterns, but the rDNA fingerprints revealed some heterogeneity between strains, with EcoRI digests providing better strain discrimination than HindIII. Such rDNA fingerprints comprised between five and seven bands with sizes in the range of 5 to 28 kilobases. The 11 different EcoRI patterns were compared by numerical analysis, and several groups or subgroups of strains were identified. Over half (15 of 26) of the urease-negative isolates (subgroups Aa and Ab) had patterns that differed only by the presence or absence of a 25-kilobase band. Urease-negative strains from other clinical material were more heterogeneous in their patterns. No correlation was apparent between strain pattern group and urease production or geographic location of isolate. The P. stuartii rDNA fingerprints were quite distinct from those of allied Providencia and Proteus species and provided a more sensitive measure of minor genomic differences than total DNA digests did.
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- R J Owen
- National Collection of Type Cultures, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
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Dealler SF, Hawkey PM, Millar MR. Enzymatic degradation of urinary indoxyl sulfate by Providencia stuartii and Klebsiella pneumoniae causes the purple urine bag syndrome. J Clin Microbiol 1988; 26:2152-6. [PMID: 2846640 PMCID: PMC266835 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.26.10.2152-2156.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The etiology of the purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS), in which the urinary catheter bag of some elderly patients develops intense purple coloration, was studied. The purple was found to be a mixture of indirubin dissolved in the plastic and indigo on its surface. Six patients with PUBS were studied, and Providencia stuartii was isolated from the urine of five and Klebsiella pneumoniae was isolated from the urine of one. These strains produced indigo in 7.9 mM indoxyl sulfate-containing agar. One hundred and fifty isolates of 41 species of bacteria were tested for their ability to produce indigo on agar containing indoxyl sulfate, but only 17 of 27 strains of P. stuartii, a single strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Enterobacter agglomerans were positive. All of the indigo-producing bacteria had an indoxyl phosphatase with a pI of 6.4. This enzyme also possessed indoxyl sulfatase activity and was not present in strains that were unable to produce indigo from indoxyl sulfate. We conclude that PUBS results from the decomposition of urinary indoxyl sulfate to indigo and indirubin by bacteria (notably P. stuartii). As elderly catheterized patients often have high urinary indoxyl sulfate levels and colonization of their urinary tract with P. stuartii, the condition is most commonly seen in them.
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- S F Dealler
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Leeds General Infirmary, England
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Rudman D, Hontanosas A, Cohen Z, Mattson DE. Clinical correlates of bacteremia in a Veterans Administration extended care facility. J Am Geriatr Soc 1988; 36:726-32. [PMID: 3042843 DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1988.tb07175.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Little is known about bacteremia in long-term care facilities. We have conducted a retrospective study during a 12-month period analyzing the clinical correlates of bacteremia in 533 chronically institutionalized, predominantly male patients, with an average age of 69 years. Thirty-four men had forty-two bacteremic illnesses during this period. The incidence rate was 0.30 episodes per 1000 patient care days, and the mortality rate was 21%. The urinary tract was the most frequently identified tissue source (56%), followed by respiratory tract (7%) and skin (7%). Providencia stuartii was the most common gram-negative organism, while Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae and enterococcus were the frequent gram-positive microbes. Gram-negative bacteremia accounted for 63% of the episodes (15% mortality rate), and gram-positive bacteremia accounted for 27% (18% mortality rate); 10% of the bacteremias were polymicrobial (25% mortality rate). Most of the isolated organisms were sensitive to available antimicrobial agents. The leading risk factor for bacteremia was an indwelling urinary catheter (odds ratio 39, 95% confidence limits 16 to 97). Patients with urinary catheters at the beginning of the study constituted only 5% of the population, but accounted for 40% of the gram-negative bacteremias during the year of observation.
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- D Rudman
- Medical Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, North Chicago, Illinois
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Cornaglia G, Dainelli B, Berlutti F, Thaller MC. Commercial identification systems often fail to identify Providencia stuartii. J Clin Microbiol 1988; 26:323-7. [PMID: 3277997 PMCID: PMC266276 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.26.2.323-327.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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We tested 145 clinical isolates in an attempt to evaluate some of the most widely used commercial identification systems in Europe in terms of their ability to identify Providencia strains. Two manual miniaturized systems (API 20E and Enterotube II) and three mechanized-automated systems (Cobas-Bact, Sceptor System, and Titertek-Enterobac-Rapid Automated System) were evaluated. Providencia alcalifaciens and Providencia rettgeri strains were correctly identified by all systems in all cases, and in most cases identification was achieved without the aid of supplementary tube tests. By contrast, Providencia stuartii was identified without the aid of supplementary tube tests for only 42.5% (API 20E), 37.5% (Enterotube), 68.7% (Sceptor), and 71.2% (Cobas-Bact) of the isolates. The overall misidentification rates were 16.3, 11.3, 11.3, and 10%, respectively. The Titertek-Enterobac-Rapid Automated System failed to identify only 1 of 80 strains (1.3%) and required supplementary tests in 2 other cases (2.5%). Since four of the multitest systems examined often failed to correctly identify P. stuartii, we conclude that supplementary conventional tube tests should always be used to distinguish this species from the other taxa of the Proteeae tribe.
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- G Cornaglia
- Instituto di Microbiologia, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
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Johnson DE, Lockatell CV, Hall-Craigs M, Mobley HL, Warren JW. Uropathogenicity in rats and mice of Providencia stuartii from long-term catheterized patients. J Urol 1987; 138:632-5. [PMID: 3625871 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5347(17)43287-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Providencia stuartii, a frequent and persistent isolate from the urinary tract of chronically catheterized elderly patients, is multiply antibiotic resistant and may cause fatal bacteremia in those patients. We studied P. stuartii strains in rats and mice to determine differences in uropathogenicity. Strains studied varied in expression of factors which contribute to pathogenicity of other bacterial species. Urinary tract responses following challenge with P. stuartii strain HO (factors expressed) were similar to responses reported for uropathogenic E. coli strains both in bacterial persistence and histologic change. In animals similarly challenged with P. stuartii strain RO (factors not expressed), responses were similar to those reported for non-uropathogenic E. coli strains. Results indicate that: a) animal model studies may be useful in differentiating P. stuartii strains based on uropathogenicity, b) P. stuartii uropathogenicity may be related to identifiable factors associated with virulence in other species, and c) the CBA mouse model appears to be the most suitable for studies of P. stuartii uropathogenicity.
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Swiatlo E, Kocka FE, Chittom AL, Kantor HS, Gac S, Waiters L. Survey of multiply resistant Providencia stuartii in a chronic care unit. J Hosp Infect 1987; 9:182-90. [PMID: 2883227 DOI: 10.1016/0195-6701(87)90058-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Providencia stuartii was cultured over a 4-year period from the urinary tract, throat, perineum, axilla and stools of patients in a long-term chronic care unit, the most common site of colonization being the urinary tract. A total of 17 patients had Prov. stuartii bacteraemia and manipulation of the urinary tract preceded bacteraemia in 10 cases. Eighty-two per cent of the patients had long-term urinary tract colonization from 1 month to 4 years. Although most isolates were resistant to all aminoglycosides except amikacin, the organisms were all susceptible to thienamycin, ceftazidime, cefotaxime, ceftizoxime and moxalactam.
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Hawkey PM, Penner JL, Linton AH, Hawkey CA, Crisp LJ, Hinton M. Speciation, serotyping, antimicrobial sensitivity and plasmid content of Proteeae from the environment of calf-rearing units in South West England. J Hyg (Lond) 1986; 97:405-17. [PMID: 3540110 PMCID: PMC2082892 DOI: 10.1017/s0022172400063592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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A survey was undertaken of the occurrence, serotype, antimicrobial sensitivity and plasmid content of members of the tribe Proteeae in the environment of two calf-rearing units in the county of Avon in South West England. Examples of the following species were found: Proteus mirabilis, Prot. vulgaris, Prot. vulgaris Biogroup 2, Morganella morganii, Providencia stuartii, Prov. alcalifaciens and Prov. rettgeri. A wide range of serotypes was found, many having been previously reported from nosocomial isolates. A total of 15% of isolates carried plasmids; six pairs of isolates were identified which had identical serotypes but different patterns of plasmid carriage. The antimicrobial sensitivity of the isolates was generally similar to isolates of Proteeae from humans. Although no truly aminoglycoside-resistant isolates were found, some isolates of Prov. stuartii and Prov. rettgeri had MIC's higher than the other isolates to gentamicin and netilmicin, suggesting the presence of low levels of the enzyme AAC 2'. The study demonstrates that there is a considerable diversity of species and types of Proteeae associated with calves and their environment. It seems likely that a potential cause of colonization of the human gut by Proteeae is the consumption of meat.
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Aminoglycoside resistance was monitored at St. Thomas' Hospital from 1975 to 1984. Gentamicin resistance had appeared in a number of species by 1975, but remained rare (less than 1 percent of isolates) in Escherichia coli throughout the study period. Gentamicin-resistant Klebsielleae had become fairly common (8 percent of isolates) by 1977, but little change has subsequently occurred in their frequency of isolation. Serratia species are not frequently isolated; gentamicin resistance in these organisms was not observed until 1979. Since then, 10 to 20 percent of isolates have been found to be resistant. Except for Providencia, most isolates of which were gentamicin-resistant, less than 5 percent of the Enterobacteriaceae isolated were found to be resistant to gentamicin during the 10-year period. Throughout the study, approximately 5 percent of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates were resistant to gentamicin. Less than 5 percent of the isolates of Acinetobacter were resistant to gentamicin before 1979, at which time 40 percent were found to be resistant; subsequently, gentamicin resistance among these organisms has become somewhat less common. On the whole, tobramycin resistance has mirrored gentamicin resistance. However, before 1979, most gentamicin-resistant Klebsielleae isolates had retained susceptibility to tobramycin, as had most gentamicin-resistant isolates of Acinetobacter and P. aeruginosa. Amikacin resistance has remained very unusual in all organisms, apart from non-aeruginosa Pseudomonas species. Until 1977, nearly all the resistance among Enterobacteriaceae was attributable to AAC(3)-I, except for that caused by AAC(2') production in Providencia and the non-enzymatic resistance observed in E. coli. However, more recently, AAC(3)-II and AAD(2'') have become the most common mechanisms of resistance. The resistance of most gentamicin-resistant isolates of P. aeruginosa from 1974 to 1977 was attributable to non-enzymatic mechanisms; subsequently, such resistance was more often caused by AAC(3)-I, AAC(6'), or AAD(2''). Gentamicin resistance first appeared in Staphylococcus aureus in 1976, after which about 1 to 2 percent of the isolates from hospitalized patients were found to be resistant, mostly because of production of AAC(6') and APH(2'').
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Fernandes CJ, Munro R, Toohey M, Shanker S, Mallon R, Daley D, Harland GS, Stevens DA, Wilson RD, Ackerman VP. In vitro antibacterial activity of enoxacin (CI-919). Pathology 1986; 18:240-2. [PMID: 3093961 DOI: 10.3109/00313028609059467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Antibacterial activity of enoxacin was evaluated against more than 3,700 clinical isolates using the agar-dilution method and an inoculum of 10(4)-10(5) cells per site. For comparison other antibiotics appropriate for each species were also included. For most enterobacteria and for Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the MIC90 of enoxacin was below 2 mg/l. Serratia marcescens was more resistant; the MIC90 being 4 mg/ml. Enoxacin also showed high activity against Campylobacter jejuni and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Streptococci were comparatively resistant, 32 mg/l to 64 mg/l of the compound being required to inhibit 90% of strains.
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Hawkey PM, McCormick A, Simpson RA. Selective and differential medium for the primary isolation of members of the Proteeae. J Clin Microbiol 1986; 23:600-3. [PMID: 3958148 PMCID: PMC268702 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.23.3.600-603.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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A new differential and selective medium for the isolation of members of the Proteeae, PIM (Proteeae isolation medium) agar, was developed and evaluated. The medium relies on the ability of all members of the Proteeae (with the exception of a very few Morganella morganii strains) to produce a dark brown pigment in medium containing DL-tryptophan. An additional differential property, tyrosine degradation, was also demonstrated by the medium. Members of the Proteeae appeared as dark brown colonies with a halo of clearing of fine tyrosine crystals when cultured on PIM agar. Occasional strains of Citrobacter sp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa may degrade tyrosine, but none has the ability to produce dark brown pigmentation on PIM agar. Quantitative recovery studies showed that the addition of 5 mg of clindamycin per liter suppressed gram-positive bacteria without inhibiting any strains of the Proteeae. The addition of 100 mg of colistin per liter made the medium highly selective for strains of the Proteeae, but approximately 10% of the strains were not isolated, thus making this formulation unsuitable for general surveys of the occurrence of members of the Proteeae. PIM agar should aid the investigation of episodes of cross infection caused by members of the Proteeae and the isolation of the new species of the Proteeae recently described.
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Russell AD. The role of plasmids in bacterial resistance to antiseptics, disinfectants and preservatives. J Hosp Infect 1985; 6:9-19. [PMID: 2859329 DOI: 10.1016/s0195-6701(85)80013-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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El-Moug T, Furr JR, Russell AD. Effect of chlorhexidine on a chlorhexidine-sensitive and a chlorhexidine-resistant strain of Providencia stuartii. Lett Appl Microbiol 1985. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765x.1985.tb01484.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Norris MJ, Rogers DT, Russell AD. Cell envelope composition and sensitivity of Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Serratia marcescens to polymyxin and other antibacterial agents. Lett Appl Microbiol 1985. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765x.1985.tb01476.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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