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FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.626160
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bla(IMP 4); transposon-like structure; class 1 integron; carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales; N plasmid
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81501782]
- Outstanding Young Teacher Research Fund of Zhengzhou University [32210464]
- Fang's family (Hong Kong) foundation
The study investigated molecular characteristics of 12 IMP-4 metallo-beta-lactamase-producing strains collected from a hospital in Zhengzhou, showing multidrug resistance but susceptibility to colistin. Plasmid stability testing revealed that N-type plasmids carrying bla(IMP-4) were more stable than other types.
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) pose a serious threat to clinical management and public health. We investigated the molecular characteristics of 12 IMP-4 metallo-beta-lactamase-producing strains, namely, 5 Enterobacter cloacae, 3 Escherichia coli, 2 Klebsiella pneumoniae, and 2 Citrobacter freundii. These strains were collected from a tertiary teaching hospital in Zhengzhou from 2013 to 2015. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) results showed that each bla(IMP-4)-positive isolate was multidrug-resistant (MDR) but susceptible to colistin. All of the E. coli belonged to ST167, two C. freundii isolates belonged to ST396, and diverse ST types were identified in E. cloacae and K. pneumoniae. S1-PFGE, Southern blotting, and PCR-based replicon typing assays showed that the bla(IMP-4)-carrying plasmids ranged from similar to 52 to similar to 360 kb and belonged to FII, FIB, HI2/HI2A, and N types. N plasmids were the predominant type (8/12, 66.7%). Plasmid stability testing indicated that the bla(IMP-4)-carrying N-type plasmid is more stable than the other types of plasmids. Conjugative assays revealed that three of the bla(IMP-4)-carrying N plasmids were transferrable. Complete sequence analysis of a representative N type (pIMP-ECL14-57) revealed that it was nearly identical to pIMP-FJ1503 (KU051710) (99% nucleotide identity and query coverage), an N-type bla(IMP-4)-carrying epidemic plasmid in a C. freundii strain. PCR mapping indicated that a transposon-like structure [IS6100-mobC-intron (K1.pn.I3)-bla(IMP-4)-IntI1-IS26] was highly conserved in all of the N plasmids. IS26 involved recombination events that resulted in variable structures of this transposon-like module in FII and FIB plasmids. The bla(IMP-4) gene was captured by a sul1-type integron In1589 on HI2/HI2A plasmid pIMP-ECL-13-46.
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