Ceftazidime–avibactam resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 37: a decade of persistence and concealed evolution

Author:

Arcari Gabriele1ORCID,Polani Riccardo1,Bruno Francesco1,Capitani Valerio1,Sacco Federica1,Menichincheri Gaia1,Raponi Giammarco2ORCID,Carattoli Alessandra3ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

2. Department of Public Health, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

3. Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Laboratory affiliated to Istituto Pasteur Italia - Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Italy

Abstract

The first reports of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in our hospital date back to 2006. In that period, few ertapenem-resistant but meropenem-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates belonging to sequence type (ST) 37 were retrieved from clinical samples. These strains produced the CTX-M-15 extended spectrum β-lactamase, OmpK35 was depleted due to a nonsense mutation, and a novel OmpK36 variant was identified. Yet, starting from 2010, Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing ST512 isolates started prevailing and ST37 vanished from sight. Since 2018 the clinical use of the combination of ceftazidime–avibactam (CZA) has been introduced in clinical practice for the treatment of bacteria producing serine-β-lactamases, but KPC-producing, CZA-resistant K. pneumoniae are emerging. In 2021, four CZA-resistant ST37 isolates producing KPC variants were isolated from the same number of patients. blaKPC gene cloning in Escherichia coli was used to define the role of those KPC variants on CZA resistance, and whole genome sequencing was performed on these isolates and on three ST37 historical isolates from 2011. CZA resistance was due to mutations in the blaKPC genes carried on related pKpQIL-type plasmids, and three variants of the KPC enzyme have been identified in the four ST37 strains. The four ST37 isolates were closely related to each other and to the historical isolates, suggesting that ST37 survived without notice in our hospital for 10 years, waiting to re-emerge as a CZA-resistant K. pneumoniae clone. The ancestor of these contemporary isolates derives from ST37 wild-type porin strains, with no other mutations in chromosomal genes involved in conferring antibiotic resistance (parC, gyrA, ramR, mgrB, pmrB).

Funder

Sapienza Università di Roma

Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti

Publisher

Microbiology Society

Subject

General Medicine

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