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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2000, p. 608-613, Vol. 44, No. 3
0066-4804/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Frequent Association between Alteration of the rdxA Gene and Metronidazole Resistance in French and North African Isolates of Helicobacter pylori

Jacques Tankovic,1,* Dominique Lamarque,2 Jean-Charles Delchier,2 Claude-James Soussy,1 Agnes Labigne,3 and Peter J. Jenks3

Service de Bactériologie-Virologie1 and Service d'Hépato-Gastroentérologie,2 Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, and Unité de Pathogénie Bactérienne des Muqueuses, Institut Pasteur, Paris,3 France

Received 11 August 1999/Returned for modification 8 November 1999/Accepted 5 December 1999

Mutations in the rdxA gene have been associated with the acquisition of resistance to metronidazole in Helicobacter pylori. This gene encodes an NADPH nitroreductase whose expression is necessary for intracellular activation of the drug. We wished to examine whether mutations in rdxA were present in resistant H. pylori isolates infecting either French or North African patients. We determined the complete nucleotide sequences of the rdxA genes from seven French and six North African patients infected with paired resistant and sensitive strains. Genotyping by random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis confirmed the close genetic relatedness of the susceptible and resistant isolates from individual biopsies. Eight French and five North African individual resistant strains were also studied. For the French strains, an alteration in rdxA most probably implicated in resistance was found in 10 cases (seven frameshift mutations, two missense mutations, and one deletion of 211 bp). One to three putative missense mutations were identified in four cases, and a missense mutation possibly not implicated in resistance was discovered in the last case. For the North African strains, an alteration in rdxA was found in eight cases (three frameshift mutations, three missense mutations, one deletion of 6 bp, and one insertion of a variant of IS605). Two strains contained putative missense mutations, and no change was observed in rdxA of the last strain. Thus, inactivation of the rdxA gene is frequently, but not always, associated with resistance to metronidazole in French and North African clinical isolates of H. pylori. In addition, a variety of alterations of rdxA are associated with the resistant phenotype.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, 51 Avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 94 010 Créteil, France. Phone: (33) 1 49 81 28 28. Fax: (33) 1 49 81 28 39. E-mail: jacques.tankovic{at}hmn.ap-hop-paris.fr.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2000, p. 608-613, Vol. 44, No. 3
0066-4804/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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