Affiliation:
1. Laboratory Medicine Center, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Affiliated People’s Hospital, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou 310014, China
2. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China
3. College of Animal Science and Technology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Hangzhou 311300, China
4. NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Research Unit of Food Safety, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU014), Beijing 100022, China
Abstract
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) are increasingly recognized as an urgent public health concern. The rapid and accurate identification of carbapenemases could provide insights into antimicrobial therapy and infection control. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of three different methods, including the NG-test Carba 5, colloidal gold immunoassay (CGI) test, and Xpert Carba-R assay, for the rapid detection of five carbapenemases (KPC, NDM, IMP, OXA-48, and VIM). A total of 207 Gram-negative strains collected from patients and hospital sewages were tested. The presence or absence of carbapenemase genes in the whole-genome sequences was used as the gold standard for evaluating the accuracy of the above-mentioned three methods. Among the 192 strains carrying only one carbapenemase gene, the accuracies of the NG-Test Carba 5, CGI test, and Xpert Carba-R were 96.88% (95% CI, 93.01–98.72%), 96.88% (95% CI, 93.01–98.72%), and 97.92% (95% CI, 94.41–99.33%), respectively. Xpert Carba-R was able to detect all 13 types of KPC variants, including KPC-2, KPC-3, KPC-25, KPC-33, KPC-35, KPC-51, KPC-52, KPC-71, KPC-76, KPC-77, KPC-78, KPC-93, and KPC-123, with a detection sensitivity of 100.00% (95% CI, 96.50–100.00%), a specificity of 100.00% (95% CI, 92.38–100.00%), and a κ index of 1.00. For IMP, Carba 5 was superior to the other two methods, with a sensitivity of 100% (95% CI, 71.66–100.00%), a specificity of 100% (95% CI, 97.38–100.00%), and a κ index of 1.00. For the remaining 15 strains carrying two or three kinds of carbapenemase genes, Carba 5 performed the best, which accurately identified all the target genes, followed by Xpert Carba-R (12/15, 80.00%) and the CGI test (10/15, 66.67%). Therefore, all three assays demonstrated reliable performances in carbapenemase detection, and Xpert Carba-R should be recommended for the detection of KPC variants, especially for patients at a high risk of infections caused by ceftazidime/avibactam-resistant strains. IMPORTANCE: CRE was listed as one of the top three pathogens that are in critical need of new antibiotics by the WHO. The rapid and accurate identification of carbapenemases is important for antimicrobial therapy and infection control. In recent years, new beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combinations such as ceftazidime/avibactam (CZA) have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to cope with CRE challenges. CZA was effective against class A, class C, and some class D enzymes such as OXA-48-like. However, CZA-resistant KPC variants emerged at an alarming speed, which posed a new challenge for the accurate identification of KPC variants. In this study, we evaluated the performance of two lateral flow immunochromatographic assays, namely, NG-test Carba 5 and the CGI test, and the automated real-time quantitative PCR Xpert Carba-R in the rapid detection of carbapenemases. Notably, 13 types of KPC variants were enrolled in this study, which covered most KPC variants discovered in China. Carba-R was superior to NG-teat Carba 5 and the CGI test; it was able to detect all of the included KPC variants, including KPC-2, KPC-3, KPC-25, KPC-33, KPC-35, KPC-51, KPC-52, KPC-71, KPC-76, KPC-77, KPC-78, KPC-93, and KPC-123.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Medical Health Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission
Subject
Pharmacology (medical),Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,Biochemistry,Microbiology
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