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Azevedo PAA, Furlan JPR, Oliveira-Silva M, Nakamura-Silva R, Gomes CN, Costa KRC, Stehling EG, Pitondo-Silva A. Detection of virulence and β-lactamase encoding genes in Enterobacter aerogenes and Enterobacter cloacae clinical isolates from Brazil. Braz J Microbiol 2018; 49 Suppl 1:224-228. [PMID: 29858139 PMCID: PMC6328715 DOI: 10.1016/j.bjm.2018.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2017] [Revised: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 04/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Enterobacter cloacae and E. aerogenes have been increasingly reported as important opportunistic pathogens. In this study, a high prevalence of multi-drug resistant isolates from Brazil, harboring several β-lactamase encoding genes was found. Several virulence genes were observed in E. aerogenes, contrasting with the E. cloacae isolates which presented none.
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- Paola Aparecida Alves Azevedo
- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
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A widespread use of acrylamide, probably a neurotoxicant and carcinogen, in various industrial processes has led to environmental contamination. Fortunately, some microorganisms are able to derive energy from acrylamide. In the present work, we reported the isolation and characterization of a novel acrylamide-degrading bacterium from domestic wastewater in Chonburi, Thailand. The strain grew well in the presence of acrylamide as 0.5% (W/V), at pH 6.0 to 9.0 and 25 degrees C. Identification based on biochemical characteristics and 16S rRNA gene sequence identified the strain as Enterobacter aerogenes. Degradation of acrylamide to acrylic acid started in the late logarithmic growth phase as a biomass-dependent pattern. Specificity of cell-free supernatant towards amides completely degraded butyramide and urea and 86% of lactamide. Moderate degradation took place in other amides with that by formamide > benzamide > acetamide > cyanoacetamide > propionamide. No degradation was detected in the reactions of N,N-methylene bisacrylamide, sodium azide, thioacetamide, and iodoacetamide. These results highlighted the potential of this bacterium in the cleanup of acrylamide/amide in the environment.
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- Kanokhathai Buranasilp
- Biological Science Program and Center of Excellence for Innovation in Chemistry (PERCH-CIC), Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Bangsaen, Chonburi 20131, Thailand.
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Kolpakova SD, Kolpakova GA. [Photometric method for differentiation of bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae at the level of strain affiliation]. Klin Lab Diagn 2006:55-6. [PMID: 16749495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Zhang C, Xing XH, Lou K. Rapid detection of a gfp-marked Enterobacter aerogenes under anaerobic conditions by aerobic fluorescence recovery. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2005; 249:211-8. [PMID: 16006057 DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.05.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2005] [Revised: 05/15/2005] [Accepted: 05/31/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A gfp- and kanamycin-resistance gene-containing plasmid pUCGK was successfully constructed and transformed into Enterobacter aerogenes to develop a rapid GFP-based method for quantifying the bacterial concentration under anaerobic conditions for production of biohydrogen. Since the use of GFP as a molecular reporter is restricted by its requirement for oxygen in the development of the fluorophore, fluorescence detection for the fluorescent E. aerogenes grown anaerobically for hydrogen production was performed by developing a method of aerobic fluorescence recovery (AFR) of the anaerobically expressed GFP. By using this AFR method, rapid and non-disruptive cell quantification of E. aerogenes by fluorescence density was achieved for analyzing the hydrogen production process.
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- Chong Zhang
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua Yuan, Beijing 100084, PR China.
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Thiolas A, Bollet C, La Scola B, Raoult D, Pagès JM. Successive emergence of Enterobacter aerogenes strains resistant to imipenem and colistin in a patient. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2005; 49:1354-8. [PMID: 15793111 PMCID: PMC1068582 DOI: 10.1128/aac.49.4.1354-1358.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Enterobacter aerogenes is an agent of hospital-acquired infection that exhibits a remarkable resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics during therapy. Five successive isolates of E. aerogenes infecting a patient and exhibiting a multiresistance phenotype to beta-lactam antibiotics and fluoroquinolones were investigated. Among these clinical strains, four presented resistant phenotypes during successive imipenem and colistin treatments. The involved resistance mechanisms exhibited by the successive isolates were associated with alterations of the outer membrane that caused a porin decrease and lipopolysaccharide modifications.
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- Aurélie Thiolas
- Enveloppe Bactérienne, Perméabilité et Antibiotiques, EA2197, IFR48, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Blvd. Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France
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Ghisalberti D, Masi M, Pagès JM, Chevalier J. Chloramphenicol and expression of multidrug efflux pump in Enterobacter aerogenes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 328:1113-8. [PMID: 15707992 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.01.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Chloramphenicol has been reported to act as an inducer of the multidrug resistance in Escherichia coli. A resistant variant able to grow on plates containing 64 microg/ml chloramphenicol was obtained from the Enterobacter aerogenes ATCC 13048-type strain. Chloramphenicol resistance was due to an active efflux of this antibiotic and it was associated with resistance to fluoroquinolones and tetracycline, but not to aminoglycoside or beta-lactam antibiotics. MDR in the chloramphenicol-resistant variant is linked to the overexpression of the major AcrAB-TolC efflux system. This overexpression seems unrelated to the global Mar and the local AcrR regulatory pathways.
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- Didier Ghisalberti
- Enveloppe Bactérienne, Perméabilité et Antibiotiques, EA2197, IFR48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France
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With a modification of Taylor's decarboxylation broth, histidine decarboxylase was detected in Enterobacter aerogenes, Morganella morganii, Raoultella ornithinolytica, and some strains of Citrobacter youngae and Raoultella planticola. This method provides a useful confirmatory test for identification of E. aerogenes strains.
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- Georges Wauters
- University of Louvain, Faculty of Medicine, Microbiology Unit, UCL/5490, Av. Hippocrate 54, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium.
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Lee SH, Jeong SH, Park YM. Characterization of blaCMY-10 a novel, plasmid-encoded AmpC-type beta-lactamase gene in a clinical isolate of Enterobacter aerogenes. J Appl Microbiol 2003; 95:744-52. [PMID: 12969288 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2672.2003.02040.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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AIMS We report the description of a novel plasmid-encoded AmpC beta-lactamase gene (blaCMY-10) from Enterobacter aerogenes K9911729 that was isolated from a patient suffering from pneumonia in South Korea. METHODS AND RESULTS Using antibiotic susceptibility testing, plasmid analysis, transconjugation and Southern blot analysis, the cefoxitin resistance phenotype reflects the presence of a large plasmid [pYMG-1 (130 kb)] in Ent. aerogenes K9911729. One beta-lactamase with the pI of 8.0 from transconjugant of Ent. aerogenes K9911729 was identified by isoelectric focusing on a gel. A 1475 bp DNA fragment containing the blaCMY-10 gene, identified on pYMG-1 of Ent. aerogenes K9911729, was sequenced and an open reading frame coding for 382 amino acid, CMY-10, was found. The 37 class C beta-lactamases were subclassified into 1a to 1j and CMY-10 into 1a by phylogenetic analysis. A sequence identical to the common regions in In6, In7 and a novel integron from pSAL-1 was found upstream from blaCMY-10 gene at nucleotide 1-71. CONCLUSIONS These results clearly show that blaCMY-10 gene belongs to the group of ampC-related bla genes. Homology analysis among AmpC enzymes or ampC genes implied that integration of the chromosomal ampC gene into a large resident plasmid, followed by transconjugation, was involved in the evolution of blaCMY-10 gene. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY The first identification of the blaCMY-10 gene is of concern as chromosomal beta-lactamases may cause serious therapeutic problems if their genes are translocated onto plasmids.
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- S H Lee
- Department of Biological Science, Myongji University, San 38-2 Namdong, Yongin, Kyunggido, South Korea.
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Aggarwal A, Khanna S, Arora U. Characterisation, biotyping, antibiogram and klebocin typing of Klebsiella with special reference to Klebsiella oxytoca. Indian J Med Sci 2003; 57:68-70. [PMID: 14514272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023]
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400 strains of Klebsiellae identified by culture characteristics and biochemical reactions were subjected to biotyping, antibiogram and klebocin typing. Based on indole production, pectin and gelatin liquefaction 16.0% of all the isolates were Klebsiella oxytoca. Maximum sensitivity was shown to Amikacin (72%) and maximum resistance to Ampicillin (87.5%). Klebocin typability was 73.5%. So by combining biotyping, antibiogram and Klebocin typing, Klebsiella could be differentiated better than based on any single marker.
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- Aruna Aggarwal
- Department of Microbiology, Govt. Medical College, Amritsar
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Drancourt M, Bollet C, Carta A, Rousselier P. Phylogenetic analyses of Klebsiella species delineate Klebsiella and Raoultella gen. nov., with description of Raoultella ornithinolytica comb. nov., Raoultella terrigena comb. nov. and Raoultella planticola comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:925-932. [PMID: 11411716 DOI: 10.1099/00207713-51-3-925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The phylogenetic relationships of the type strains of 9 Klebsiella species and 20 species from 11 genera of the family Enterobacteriaceae were investigated by performing a comparative analysis of the sequences of the 16S rRNA and rpoB genes. The sequence data were phylogenetically analysed by the neighbourjoining and parsimony methods. The phylogenetic inference of the sequence comparison confirmed that the genus Klebsiella is heterogeneous and composed of species which form three clusters that also included members of other genera, including Enterobacter aerogenes, Erwinia clusters I and II and Tatumella. Cluster I contained the type strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae, Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. rhinoscleromatis and Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. ozaenae. Cluster II contained Klebsiella ornithinolytica, Klebsiella planticola, Klebsiella trevisanii and Klebsiella terrigena, organisms characterized by growth at 10 degrees C and utilization of L-sorbose as carbon source. Cluster III contained Klebsiella oxytoca. The data from the sequence analyses along with previously reported biochemical and DNA-DNA hybridization data support the division of the genus Klebsiella into two genera and one genogroup. The name Raoultella is proposed as a genus name for species of cluster II and emended definitions of Klebsiella species are proposed.
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De Gheldre Y, Struelens MJ, Glupczynski Y, De Mol P, Maes N, Nonhoff C, Chetoui H, Sion C, Ronveaux O, Vaneechoutte M. National epidemiologic surveys of Enterobacter aerogenes in Belgian hospitals from 1996 to 1998. J Clin Microbiol 2001; 39:889-96. [PMID: 11230400 PMCID: PMC87846 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.39.3.889-896.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Two national surveys were conducted to describe the incidence and prevalence of Enterobacter aerogenes in 21 Belgian hospitals in 1996 and 1997 and to characterize the genotypic diversity and the antimicrobial resistance profiles of clinical strains of E. aerogenes isolated from hospitalized patients in Belgium in 1997 and 1998. Twenty-nine hospitals collected 10 isolates of E. aerogenes, which were typed by arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR) using two primers and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. MICs of 10 antimicrobial agents were determined by the agar dilution method. Beta-lactamases were detected by the double-disk diffusion test and characterized by isoelectric point. The median incidence of E. aerogenes colonization or infection increased from 3.3 per 1,000 admissions in 1996 to 4.2 per 1000 admissions in the first half of 1997 (P < 0.01). E. aerogenes strains (n = 260) clustered in 25 AP-PCR types. Two major types, BE1 and BE2, included 36 and 38% of strains and were found in 21 and 25 hospitals, respectively. The BE1 type was indistinguishable from a previously described epidemic strain in France. Half of the strains produced an extended-spectrum beta-lactamase, either TEM-24 (in 86% of the strains) or TEM-3 (in 14% of the strains). Over 75% of the isolates were resistant to ceftazidime, piperacillin-tazobactam, and ciprofloxacin. Over 90% of the strains were susceptible to cefepime, carbapenems, and aminoglycosides. In conclusion, these data suggest a nationwide dissemination of two epidemic multiresistant E. aerogenes strains in Belgian hospitals. TEM-24 beta-lactamase was frequently harbored by one of these epidemic strains, which appeared to be genotypically related to a TEM-24-producing epidemic strain from France, suggesting international dissemination.
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- Y De Gheldre
- Service de Microbiologie, Laboratoire de Bacteriologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles-Hôpital Erasme, 808 route de Lennik, 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
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Husson MO, Quelquejay J, Fruchart A, Izard D. [Comparative antibacterial activity of cefotaxime, ceftazidime and cefepime with regard to different strains of Enterobacter aerogenes selected for their resistance to third generation cephalosporins]. Pathol Biol (Paris) 2000; 48:933-9. [PMID: 11204925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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After being confronted with the isolation in our laboratory of numerous antibiotic-multiresistant Enterobacter aerogenes strains, we studied the in vitro antimicrobial activity of cefotaxime, ceftazidime, and cefepime alone or in association with sulbactam. For that, we selected 67 isolates according to their low level of susceptibility to cefotaxime. First, we deduced from a synergy test in presence of clavulanic acid and cloxacillin the production of an extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) and/or an overproduction of a chromosomal cephalosporinase. Three groups of strains were thus defined: one group of ESBL strains, another group of overproducing strains of chromosomal cephalosporinase, and a last group that produced the two types of enzymes. Minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of each cephalosporin alone or in presence of 8 mg/L of sulbactam, gentamicin or amikacin were measured. Our results demonstrated the best activity of cefepime: MICs were low with a value inferior to 4 mg/L independently of the type of beta-lactamase. They were lower than 0.5 mg/L in presence of sulbactam against ESBL-producing strains. The cephalosporins could be used in association with aminoglycosides according to their susceptibility.
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- M O Husson
- Laboratoire de bactériologie-hygiène, hôpital A.-Calmette, boulevard Pr. J.-Leclercq, 59037 Lille, France
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