Journal
ANTIBIOTICS-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11081000
Keywords
MRSA; MLSB phenotype; antibiotic-resistant
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- Universidad de Concepcion [218.085.0401.0IN]
- National Agency for Research and Development (ANID)/Scholarship Program/DOCTORADO NACIONAL [2017 21171278]
- FONDECYT, the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT) of Chile [1171805]
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This study found that the prevalence of cMLSB resistance phenotype in all HA-MRSA isolates in Chile, with ermA being the predominant gene identified among these isolates.
Macrolides, lincosamides, and type B streptogramins (MLSB) are important therapeutic options to treat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections; however, resistance to these antibiotics has been emerging. In Chile, data on the MLSB resistance phenotypes are scarce in both community-(CA) and hospital-acquired (HA) MRSA isolates. Antimicrobial susceptibility to MLSB was determined for sixty-eight non-repetitive isolates of each HA-(32) and CA-MRSA (36). Detection of SCCmec elements, ermA, ermB, ermC, and msrA genes was performed by PCR. The predominant clones were SCCmec I-ST5 (HA-MRSA) and type IVc-ST8 (CA-MRSA). Most of the HA-MRSA isolates (97%) showed resistance to clindamycin, erythromycin, azithromycin, and clarithromycin. Among CA-MRSA isolates, 28% were resistant to erythromycin, azithromycin, and 25% to clarithromycin. All isolates were susceptible to linezolid, vancomycin, daptomycin and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, and over 97% to rifampicin. The ermA gene was amplified in 88% of HA-MRSA and 17% of CA-MRSA isolates (p < 0.001). The ermC gene was detected in 6% of HA-SARM and none of CA-SARM isolates, whereas the msrA gene was only amplified in 22% of CA-MRSA (p < 0.005). Our results demonstrate the prevalence of the cMLSB resistance phenotype in all HA-MRSA isolates in Chile, with the ermA being the predominant gene identified among these isolates.
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