Resistance to ceftazidime in associated with AcrR, MarR and PBP3 mutations and overexpression of Free

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The mechanisms responsible for the increase in ceftazidime MIC in two selected mutants, Caz/20-1 and Caz/20-2, were studied. OmpF loss and overexpression of , and that were associated with and mutations and overexpression, together with mutations A233T and I332V in FtSI (PBP3) resulted in ceftazidime resistance in Caz/20-2, multiplying by 128-fold the ceftazidime MIC in the parental clinical isolate PS/20. Absence of detectable β-lactamase hydrolytic activity in the crude extract of Caz/20-2 was observed, and coincided with Q191K and P209S mutations in AmpC and a nucleotide substitution at −28 in the promoter, whereas β-lactamase hydrolytic activity in crude extracts of PS/20 and Caz/20-1 strains was detected. Nevertheless, a fourfold increase in ceftazidime MIC in Caz/20-1 compared with that in PS/20 was due to the increased transcript level of derived from mutation. The two Caz mutants and PS/20 showed the same mutations in AmpG and ParE.

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