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Single or in Combination Antimicrobial Resistance Mechanisms of Klebsiella pneumoniae Contribute to Varied Susceptibility to Different Carbapenems
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Journal Article
Single or in Combination Antimicrobial Resistance Mechanisms of Klebsiella pneumoniae Contribute to Varied Susceptibility to Different Carbapenems
2013
Overview
Resistance to carbapenems has been documented by the production of carbapenemase or the loss of porins combined with extended-spectrum β-lactamases or AmpC β-lactamases. However, no complete comparisons have been made regarding the contributions of each resistance mechanism towards carbapenem resistance. In this study, we genetically engineered mutants of Klebsiella pneumoniae with individual and combined resistance mechanisms, and then compared each resistance mechanism in response to ertapenem, imipenem, meropenem, doripenem and other antibiotics. Among the four studied carbapenems, ertapenem was the least active against the loss of porins, cephalosporinases and carbapenemases. In addition to the production of KPC-2 or NDM-1 alone, resistance to all four carbapenems could also be conferred by the loss of two major porins, OmpK35 and OmpK36, combined with CTX-M-15 or DHA-1 with its regulator AmpR. Because the loss of OmpK35/36 alone or the loss of a single porin combined with bla CTX-M-15 or bla DHA-1-ampR expression was only sufficient for ertapenem resistance, our results suggest that carbapenems other than ertapenem should still be effective against these strains and laboratory testing for non-susceptibility to other carbapenems should improve the accurate identification of these isolates.
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS),Public Library of Science
Subject
/ Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology
/ Bacteria
/ Bacterial Proteins - metabolism
/ beta-Lactamases - metabolism
/ Cloning
/ E coli
/ Genetically modified organisms
/ Humans
/ Imipenem
/ Klebsiella pneumoniae - drug effects
/ Klebsiella pneumoniae - enzymology
/ Klebsiella pneumoniae - metabolism
/ Medicine
/ Mutants
/ Plasmids
/ Porins
/ Q
/ R
/ Science
