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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Resistance to Some New Drugs and Prevalence of ESBL- and MBL-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Uropathogens Isolated from Diabetic Patients.

Othman M Alzahrani, Fakhur Uddin, Samy F Mahmoud, Amal S Alswat, Muhammad Sohail, Mona Youssef

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Othman M AlzahraniDepartment of Biology, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.
Fakhur UddinMedical Technologist, Department of Microbiology, Basic Medical Sciences Institute (BMSI), JPMC, Karachi 75510, Pakistan.
Samy F MahmoudDepartment of Biotechnology, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-9025-7306
Amal S AlswatDepartment of Biotechnology, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-5306-226X
Muhammad SohailDepartment of Microbiology, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-7208-9441
Mona YoussefDepartment of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Benha Teaching Hospital, Benha 13518, Egypt.
Taif University · SABenha University · EGUniversity of Karachi · PK

Funding

Taif University TURSP-2020/262
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetes is a leading non-communicable disease and a risk factor for relapsing infections. The current study was aimed at investigating the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of carbapenem-resistant (CR) uropathogens of the family Enterobacteriaceae in diabetic patients. The data of 910 bacterial isolates was collected from diagnostic laboratories during January 2018 to December 2018. The bacterial isolates were identified using traditional methods including colonial characteristics, biochemical tests, and API (20E). Antimicrobial susceptibility and phenotypic characterization of ESBL, MBLs, and KPC was determined by utilizing CLSI recommended methods. The phenotypically positive isolates were further analyzed for resistance-encoding genes by manual PCR and Check-MDR CT103XL microarray. Susceptibility to colistin and cefiderocol was tested in accordance with CLSI guidelines. The data revealed that most of the patients were suffering from type 2 diabetes for a duration of more than a year and with uncontrolled blood sugar levels. Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae were the most frequently encountered pathogens, followed by Enterobacter cloacae and Proteus mirabilis. More than 50% of the isolates showed resistance to 22 antibiotics, with the highest resistance (>80%) against tetracycline, ampicillin, and cefazolin. The uropathogens showed less resistance to non-β-lactam antibiotics, including amikacin, fosfomycin, and nitrofurantoin. In the phenotypic assays, 495 (54.3%) isolates were found to be ESBL producers, while ESBL-TEM and -PER were the most prevalent ESBL types. The resistance to carbapenems was slightly less (250; 27.5%) than ESBL producers, yet more common amongst E. coli isolates. MBL production was a common feature in carbapenem-resistant isolates (71.2%); genotypic characterization also validated this trend. The isolates were found to be sensitive against the new drugs, cefiderocol and eravacycline. with 7−28% resistance, except for P. mirabilis which had 100% resistance against eravacycline. This study concludes that a few types of ESBL and carbapenemases are common in the uropathogens isolated from the diabetic patients, and antibiotic stewardship programs need to be revisited, particularly to cure UTIs in diabetic patients.

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antimicrobial resistanceE. coliK. pneumoniaetype 2 diabetesβ-lactamase

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