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ArticleNature communications2023

Within-host genetic diversity of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales in long-term colonized patients.

Lisandra Aguilar-Bultet, Ana B García-Martín, Isabelle Vock, Laura Maurer Pekerman, Rahel Stadler, Ruth Schindler, Manuel Battegay, Tanja Stadler, Elena Gómez-Sanz, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Lisandra Aguilar-BultetDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Ana B García-MartínDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2501-835X
Isabelle VockDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Laura Maurer PekermanDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Rahel StadlerDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Ruth SchindlerDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Manuel BattegayDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Tanja StadlerSwiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6431-535X
Elena Gómez-SanzDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Sarah Tschudin-SutterDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. sarah.tschudin@usb.ch.ORCID 0000-0003-4875-5368

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) 197901
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite recognition of the immediate impact of infections caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-PE) on human health, essential aspects of their molecular epidemiology remain under-investigated. This includes knowledge on the potential of a particular strain to persist in a host, mutational events during colonization, and the genetic diversity in individual patients over time. To investigate long-term genetic diversity of colonizing and infecting ESBL-Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex and ESBL-Escherichia coli in individual patients over time, we performed a ten-year longitudinal retrospective study and extracted clinical and microbiological data from electronic health records. In this investigation, 76 ESBL-K. pneumoniae species complex and 284 ESBL-E. coli isolates were recovered from 19 and 61 patients. Strain persistence was detected in all patients colonized with ESBL-K. pneumoniae species complex, and 83.6% of patients colonized with ESBL-E. coli. We frequently observed isolates of the same strain recovered from different body sites associated with either colonization or infection. Antimicrobial resistance genes, plasmid replicons, and whole ESBL-plasmids were shared between isolates regardless of chromosomal relatedness. Our study suggests that patients colonized with ESBL-producers may act as durable reservoirs for ongoing transmission of ESBLs, and that they are at prolonged risk of recurrent infection with colonizing strains.

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Escherichia coli InfectionsKlebsiella InfectionsAnti-Bacterial Agentsbeta-LactamasesEscherichia coliGenetic VariationHumansKlebsiellaKlebsiella pneumoniaeMicrobial Sensitivity TestsRetrospective StudiesAnti-Bacterial Agentsbeta-Lactamases

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PMCPMC10739949

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