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Colonization with and causes infections in a Vietnamese intensive care unit Open Access

Abstract

Pre-existing colonization with or has been found to increase the risk of infection in intensive care patients. We previously conducted a longitudinal study to characterize colonization of these two organisms in patients admitted to intensive care in a hospital in southern Vietnam. Here, using genomic and phylogenetic analyses, we aimed to assess the contribution these colonizing organisms made to infections. We found that in the majority of patients infected with or , the sequence type of the disease-causing (infecting) isolate was identical to that of corresponding colonizing organisms in the respective patient. Further in-depth analysis revealed that in patients infected by ST188 and by ST17, ST23, ST25 and ST86, the infecting isolate was closely related to and exhibited limited genetic variation relative to pre-infection colonizing isolates. Multidrug-resistant ST188 was identified as the predominant agent of colonization and infection. Colonization and infection by were characterized by organisms with limited antimicrobial resistance profiles but extensive repertoires of virulence genes. Our findings augment the understanding of the link between bacterial colonization and infection in a low-resource setting, and could facilitate the development of novel evidence-based approaches to prevent and treat infections in high-risk patients in intensive care.

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Keyword(s): colonization , hospital-acquired infections , hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae , intra-patient diversity and Staphylococcus aureus
Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Wellcome Trust (Award 215515/Z/19/Z)
    • Principle Award Recipient: StephenBaker
  • Wellcome Trust (Award 218726/Z/19/Z)
    • Principle Award Recipient: HaoChung The
© 2021 The Authors
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