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Abstract

Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes) can become an exacerbating factor in acne vulgaris. Clindamycin has been most frequently used for the treatment of inflammatory acne vulgaris. We studied clindamycin susceptibility and resistance determinants of C. acnes isolated from acne patients in Japan. The isolation rate of clindamycin-resistant C. acnes had significantly increased from 20.3 % in 2009–2010 to 44.1 % in 2016–2017. Strains carrying erm(X), which confers high-level resistance to clindamycin, had significantly increased from 1.4 to 11.8 %. Sequence analysis of the resistance determinant showed that erm(X) was coded on transposon Tn5432. A transconjugation experiment showed that erm(X) can be transferred between C. acnes strains with high frequency and the transconjugants harboured transposon Tn5432 encoding erm(X). Our data show the transconjugation of erm(X) in C. acnes and strongly suggest that the transmission of erm(X) between C. acnes contributes to the increase and spread of clindamycin-resistant C. acnes strains in acne patients.

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