Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of isolated from hospitals during a 4-year period in China Free

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The aim of this study was to perform molecular characterization for and determine the antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of collected from hospitals during a 4-year period (2009–2013) in China.

Strains of toxigenic were isolated from patients with diarrhoea, and this was followed by typing using multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and testing for susceptibility to 10 antimicrobials by using the E-test. The mechanisms of resistance to moxifloxacin, erythromycin, clindamycin and tetracycline were investigated by PCR.

A total of 405 non-duplicate toxigenic isolates were identified, while 31 sequence types (STs) were identified. A predominant type, ST-54, accounted for 20.2 % of the STs, followed by ST-35 (16.3 %) and ST-37 (13.6 %). We found that 6.2 % of the isolates were binary toxin genes-positive, and 83.7 % of these belonged to ST-5. All of the isolates demonstrated 100 % susceptibility to first-line infection (CDI) therapies (i.e. metronidazole and vancomycin), while the resistance rates varied for the other antibiotics tested. Two hundred and ninety three (72.3 %) isolates were susceptible to moxifloxacin. All 112 moxifloxacin-resistant isolates had mutations resulting in an amino acid substitution in and/or . The gene was detected in 86.7 % (241/278) of the erythromycin- and clindamycin-resistant isolates, while the gene was present in 97.1 % (85/87) of the tetracycline-resistant isolates.

MLST typing revealed a wide variety of STs causing CDI, while ST-54 was the most common ST. All of the isolates were susceptible to metronidazole and vancomycin, while the resistance rates varied for the other antibiotics tested. There were no changes in the trends for the STs and antibiotic susceptibility profiles over 4 years.

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