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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, January 2005, p. 71-76, Vol. 49, No. 1
0066-4804/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.49.1.71-76.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Emergence of Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance in Escherichia coli in Europe

Hedi Mammeri,1,{dagger} Marc Van De Loo,1,{dagger} Laurent Poirel,1 Luis Martinez-Martinez,2 and Patrice Nordmann1*

Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique/Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine Paris-Sud, Université Paris XI, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France,1 Servicio de Microbiologia, Hospital Universitario Marquès de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain2

Received 18 June 2004/ Returned for modification 19 August 2004/ Accepted 20 September 2004

Although quinolone resistance results mostly from chromosomal mutations, it may also be mediated by a plasmid-encoded qnr gene in members of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Thus, 297 nalidixic-acid resistant strains of 2,700 Escherichia coli strains that had been isolated at the Bicêtre Hospital (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France) in 2003 were screened for qnr by PCR. A single E. coli isolate that carried a ca. 180-kb conjugative plasmid encoding a qnr determinant was identified. It conferred low-level resistance to quinolones and was associated with a chromosomal mutation in subunit A of the topoisomerase II gene. The qnr gene was located on a sul1-type class 1 integron just downstream of a conserved region (CR) element (CR1) comprising the Orf513 recombinase. Promoter sequences for qnr expression overlapped the extremity of CR1, indicating the role of CR1 in the expression of antibiotic resistance genes. This integron was different from other qnr-positive sul1-type integrons identified in American and Chinese enterobacterial isolates. In addition, plasmid pQR1 carried another class 1 integron that was identical to In53 from E. coli. The latter integron possessed a series of gene cassettes, including those coding for the extended-spectrum ß-lactamase VEB-1, the rifampin ADP ribosyltransferase ARR-2, and several aminoglycoside resistance markers. This is the first report of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance in Europe associated with an unknown level of plasmid-mediated multidrug resistance in Enterobacteriaceae.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, Hôpital de Bicêtre, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94275 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre cedex, France. Phone: 33-1-45-21-36-32. Fax: 33-1-45-21-63-40. E-mail: nordmann.patrice{at}bct.ap-hop-paris.fr.

{dagger} H.M. and M.V.D.L. contributed equally to this work.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, January 2005, p. 71-76, Vol. 49, No. 1
0066-4804/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.49.1.71-76.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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