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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, November 2005, p. 4745-4750, Vol. 49, No. 11
0066-4804/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/AAC.49.11.4745-4750.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
CTX-M-2 and a New CTX-M-39 Enzyme Are the Major Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases in Multiple Escherichia coli Clones Isolated in Tel Aviv, Israel
Inna Chmelnitsky,
Yehuda Carmeli,
Azita Leavitt,
Mitchell J. Schwaber, and
Shiri Navon-Venezia*
Division of Epidemiology and Laboratory for Molecular Epidemiology and Antibiotic Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Received 14 April 2005/
Returned for modification 24 June 2005/
Accepted 3 August 2005
The rate of occurrence of the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing phenotype among Escherichia coli isolates in Tel Aviv is 12% (22). The aim of this study was to understand the molecular epidemiology of E. coli ESBL producers and to identify the ESBL genes carried by them. We studied 20 single-patient ESBL-producing E. coli clinical isolates. They comprised 11 distinct nonrelated pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) genotypes: six isolates belonged to the same PFGE clone, four other clones included two isolates each, and six unrelated clones included only one isolate. All isolates produced various beta-lactamases with pIs ranging from 5.2 to 8.2, varying within similar PFGE clones. The most prevalent ESBL gene was blaCTX-M; 16 isolates carried blaCTX-M-2 and three carried a new ESBL gene designated blaCTX-M-39. Three strains carried blaSHV (two blaSHV-12 and one blaSHV-5), and two strains carried inhibitor-resistant ESBL genes, blaTEM-33 and blaTEM-30; 18 strains carried blaTEM-1 and eight strains carried blaOXA-2. Plasmid mapping and Southern blot analysis with a CTX-M-2 probe demonstrated that blaCTX-M-2 is plasmid borne. The wide dissemination of ESBLs among E. coli isolates in our institution is partly related to clonal spread, but more notably to various plasmid-associated ESBL genes, occurring in multiple clones, wherein the CTX-M gene family appears almost uniformly. We report here a new CTX-M gene, designated blaCTX-M-39, which revealed 99% homology with blaCTX-M-26, with a substitution of arginine for glutamine at position 225.
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Epidemiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizmann St., Tel Aviv 64239, Israel. Phone: 972 3 692 5644. Fax: 972 3 697 4966. E-mail: shiri_nv{at}tasmc.health.gov.il.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, November 2005, p. 4745-4750, Vol. 49, No. 11
0066-4804/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/AAC.49.11.4745-4750.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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