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Vol. 15. Issue 5.
Pages 420-425 (September - October 2011)
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Diversity of genotypes in CTX-M-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated in different hospitals in Brazil
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Thiago Pavoni Gomes Chagas1, Ronaldo Mendes Alves2, Deyse Christina Vallim3, Liliane Miyuki Seki4, Leila Carvalho Campos5, Marise Dutra Asensi6,
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Correspondence to: Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil CEP: 21040-360
1 Graduated in Biological Sciences, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); MSc Student in Tropical Medicine, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC)/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2 Graduated in Biological Sciences; Technologist, IOC/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
3 Microbiology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); Technologist, IOC/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
4 Microbiology, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ); Technician, IOC/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
5 Microbiology, Researcher, CPqGM/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
6 Microbiology; Chief, Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, IOC/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Abstract
Objective

The present study was undertaken to characterize CTX-M ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae collected from hospitals in different cities of Brazil.

Material and Methods

Eighty-five K. pneumoniae strains isolated from hospitalized patients in six different hospitals of three cities of Brazil were analyzed. ESBL production was confirmed by the standard double-disk synergy test and the Etest®. The MIC50 and MIC90 for ESBL-producing isolates were determined by the Etest® method. The antimicrobial susceptibilities of bacterial isolates were determined using the agar diffusion method according to the CLSI. Screening for blaTEM, blaSHV, blaCTX-M genes and class 1 integron was performed by PCR amplification. To determine the genomic diversity of CTX-M-producers, isolates were analyzed by macrorestriction profile analysis following PFGE.

Results and Discussion

Seventy-one K. pneumoniae isolates were ESBL-producing. PCR and sequencing experiments detected 38 CTX-M-producing K. pneumoniae belonged to groups CTX-M 1, CTX-M 2, CTX-M 8 and CTX-M 9. The association of different types ESBL (CTX-M, SHV and TEM) was frequent. All K. pneumoniae isolates carried class 1 integron. PFGE analysis revealed thirty-one clonal types among CTX-M-producing isolates. The data presented herein illustrate the diversity of genotypes of CTX-M producing K. pneumoniae among Brazilians hospitals.

Keywords:
Klebsiella pneumoniae
β-lactamases
genotype
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