Title
Molecular characterization of fluoroquinolone-resistant bartonella bacilliformis
Date Issued
01 July 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
MDPI AG
Abstract
The presence of amino acid changes in GyrA, GyrB, ParC, ParE, and in a proposed chromosomal chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT), as well as mutations at 23S rRNA, were established by PCR and sequencing in 38 B. bacilliformis clinical isolates from four different areas in Peru. Eighteen out of 24 (75%) isolates showing ciprofloxacin resistance for both disk-diffusion and e-test presented amino acid substitutions in GyrA (G89C, six isolates, A91V, 1 isolate) GyrB (S474F, 10 isolates) or both (GyrA D95N and GyrB S474F, one isolate). Two out of 14 susceptible isolates presented amino acid substitutions at GyrB (S474F) or a double substitution GyrA D95N and GyrB S474F. Of note, ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates were recovered in the four areas studied. No amino acid change was observed at ParC or ParE. Only one isolate showed chloramphenicol resistance, but no alteration was present in either 23S rRNA or CAT. B. bacilliformis resistant to quinolones are extended throughout Peru, with amino acid substitutions at GyrA or GyrB as the main, albeit not exclusive, cause. B. bacilliformis seems to have an apparent facility to develop mutations on GyrB outside the classical positions 91, 95 of GyrA and 85, 88 of ParC.
Volume
10
Issue
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Virología Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85110812513
Source
Pathogens
ISSN of the container
20760817
Sponsor(s)
Funding: The study “Caracterización molecular de cepas de Bartonella bacilliformis resistentes a los antimicrobianos, procedentes de localidades endémicas del Perú” was supported by the Instituto Nacional de Salud.
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