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- Conditional probability analysis of multidrug resistance in Gram-negative bacilli isolated from tertiary medical institutions in South Korea during 1999–2009
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Yong-Hak Kim
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J. Microbiol. 2016;54(1):50-56. Published online January 5, 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-016-5579-9
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Multidrug resistance of Gram-negative bacilli is a major problem
globally. However, little is known about the combined
probability of resistance to various antibiotics. In this study,
minimum inhibitory concentrations of widely used antibiotics
were determined using clinical isolates of Escherichia coli,
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Acinetobacter
baumannii, randomly chosen from strain collections
created during 1999–2009 in tertiary medical institutions in
Seoul, South Korea. To analyze combined efficacy of antibiotics
against a subgroup of isolates, conditional probabilities
were determined based on arbitrary, non-independent patterns
of antimicrobial susceptibility and resistance. Multidrug
resistance, defined as resistance to three or more classes of
antibiotics, was observed in the following order: A. baumannii
(96%), P. aeruginosa (65%), E. coli (52%), and K. pneumoniae
(7%). A. baumannii strains resistant to gentamicin were found
to be resistant to a number of antibiotics, except for colistin
and polymyxin B. Resistance to gentamicin following exposure
to this antibiotic was highly likely to lead to multidrug
resistance in all four microbes. This study shows a causal
relationship between gentamicin resistance and the prevalence
of multidrug resistance in clinical isolates of Gramnegative
bacilli in South Korea during 1999–2009 and suggests
the importance of prudent use of gentamicin in hospitals.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-012-2177-3
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A Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutant strain M122 was isolated from a Mu transposon insertion mutant library. In our prophase research, we have found that PA0058, a novel gene encodes a 234-residue conserved protein, was disrupted in the M122 mutant. In this study, the bacteriostatic experiment in vitro indicates that M122 has abnormally high aminoglycoside resistance. We expressed PA0058 in E. coli and found that PA0058 oxidizes and reduces disulfide. This biochemical characterization suggests that PA0058 is a novel disulfide oxidoreductase. Hence, the protein was designated as DsbM. Microarray analysis of the M122 mutant showed its unusual phenotype might be related to the bacterial antioxidant defense system mediated by the oxyR regulon. Meanwhile, we detected –SH content in the periplasm of M122 and wild strain and found a lower –SH/S–S ratio in M122. Therefore, we consider that the loss of dsbM function decreased the –SH/S–S ratio, which then prolongs the
OxyR-regulated response, thereby conferring high aminoglycoside resistance to the M122 mutant strain. Our findings have important implications for understanding the mechanisms underlying aminoglycoside resistance in P. aeruginosa.