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J. Antimicrob. Chemother. · Jun 2003
Hospital outbreak of multiple clones of Pseudomonas aeruginosa carrying the unrelated metallo-beta-lactamase gene variants blaVIM-2 and blaVIM-4.
- S Pournaras, M Maniati, E Petinaki, L S Tzouvelekis, A Tsakris, N J Legakis, and A N Maniatis.
- Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of Thessaly, Mezourlo, Larissa 412 22, Greece. pournaras@med.uth.gr
- J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2003 Jun 1; 51 (6): 1409-14.
ObjectivesThe possible contribution of metallo-beta-lactamases in the frequent detection of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in a tertiary Greek hospital in Central Greece was investigated.Materials And MethodsAll carbapenem-resistant (imipenem- and/or meropenem-resistant) P. aeruginosa isolates recovered from separate patients during a 1 year period in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at the University Hospital of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece, were studied for metallo-beta-lactamases. They were tested by Etest MBL, PCR analysis and nucleotide sequencing. DNA fingerprints were obtained by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of XbaI-digested chromosomal DNA.ResultsA blaVIM gene was detected in 47 of the 53 (88.7%) carbapenem-resistant P. aeruginosa isolates. PFGE grouped the blaVIM-positive isolates in six unrelated genotypes; one type included two subtypes. Nucleotide sequencing of the PCR amplicons of a randomly selected isolate from each one of the seven subtypes, detected the variant sequences blaVIM-2 in four and blaVIM-4 in three cases, respectively. They were carried as single gene cassettes or along with an aminoglycoside resistance gene (aacA29a) in class 1 integrons.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that different strains of P. aeruginosa carrying unrelated metallo-beta-lactamase gene variants predominate in our hospital environment.
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