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ArticleFolia microbiologica2018

Characterization of multiple antibiotic resistant clinical strains of Staphylococcus isolated from pregnant women vagina.

Bakwena Ashton Hetsa, Ajay Kumar, Collins Njie Ateba

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Article in Folia microbiologica, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bakwena Ashton HetsaDepartment of Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Private Bag X2046, Mmabatho, 2735, South Africa.
Ajay KumarDepartment of Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Private Bag X2046, Mmabatho, 2735, South Africa.
Collins Njie AtebaDepartment of Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Private Bag X2046, Mmabatho, 2735, South Africa. collins.ateba@nwu.ac.za.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vagina which is one of the important reservoirs for Staphylococcus and in pregnant women pathogenic strains may infect the child during the birth or by vertical transmission. A total of 68 presumptive Staphylococcus strains isolated from human vagina were found to be gram-positive cocci, and only 32 (47%) isolates were found beta-hemolytic. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass-spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) results confirmed 33 isolates belonged to Staphylococcus which consisting of 6 species, i.e., S. aureus (14), S. vitulinus (7), S. epidermidis (4), S cohnii (3), S. equorum (3), and S. succinus (2). Further, the result of antibiotic susceptibility tests showed that large proportions (76%-100%) of the isolates were resistant to multiple antibiotics and more often resistant to penicillin (100%), ampicillin (100%), oxacillin (97%), oxytetracycline (97%), vancomycin (97%), rifampin (85%), erythromycin (82%), and streptomycin (76%). In the present study, only the sec enterotoxin gene was detected in four S. aureus strains. DNA fingerprints of the 33 isolates that were generated using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) PCR analysis revealed great genetic relatedness of isolates. High prevalence of vaginal colonization with multiple antibiotic-resistant staphylococci among pregnant women was observed which were emerged from the single respective species clones that underwent evolution. The vertical transmission of these multiple antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus species to the infant is possible; therefore, the findings of this study emphasize the need for regular surveillance of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains in pregnant women in this area.

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Drug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialAnti-Bacterial AgentsCluster AnalysisDNA, BacterialEnterotoxinsFemaleGenes, BacterialGenotypeHumansPregnancyPregnancy Complications, InfectiousSouth AfricaStaphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcusVaginaVirulence FactorsAnti-Bacterial AgentsDNA, BacterialEnterotoxinsVirulence FactorsAntibiotic resistanceEnterotoxinERIC-2RAPDStaphylococcusVagina

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