Prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in Proteus mirabilis in a Taiwanese university hospital, 1999 to 2005: identification of a novel CTX-M enzyme (CTX-M-66)

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008 Feb;60(2):169-75. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.08.004. Epub 2007 Oct 29.

Abstract

A total of 1574 nonduplicate Proteus mirabilis isolates collected at a Taiwanese hospital during 1999 to 2005 were analyzed for production of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs). Forty-four ESBL-producing isolates including 22 CTX-M-14, 18 CTX-M-3, 2 CTX-M-24, and 2 CTX-M-66 producers were detected, and the proportion of ESBL producers increased from 0.7% in 1999 to approximately 6% after 2002. CTX-M-66 is a novel variant of CTX-M ESBLs that differs from CTX-M-3 by a Ser to Asn change at amino acid position 23. Coresistances to aminoglycosides and ciprofloxacin were very common in the CTX-M-3 producers. The presence of ArmA-type or RmtB-type 16S rRNA methylase that confers high-level aminoglycoside resistance was detected in 12 CTX-M-3 producers and 4 CTX-M-14 producers. Twenty-four clones including an endemic CTX-M-14-producing clone were observed among the 44 ESBL producers by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, suggesting that both horizontal transfer and clonal spread contributed to the increased prevalence of bla(CTX-M) in P. mirabilis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Substitution / genetics
  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques
  • DNA Fingerprinting
  • DNA, Bacterial / chemistry
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
  • Endemic Diseases
  • Gene Transfer, Horizontal
  • Genotype
  • Hospitals
  • Humans
  • Methyltransferases / genetics
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Proteus Infections / epidemiology
  • Proteus Infections / microbiology
  • Proteus mirabilis / enzymology*
  • Proteus mirabilis / genetics
  • Proteus mirabilis / isolation & purification
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Taiwan / epidemiology
  • beta-Lactamases / classification
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Methyltransferases
  • beta-Lactamases

Associated data

  • GENBANK/EF570050
  • GENBANK/EF570051
  • GENBANK/EF570052
  • GENBANK/EF576988