Author:
Vanacker Marie,Lenuzza Natacha,Rasigade Jean-Philippe
Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria implies a tradeoff between the benefit of resistance under antimicrobial selection pressure and the incurred fitness cost in the absence of antimicrobials. The fitness cost of a resistance determinant is expected to depend on its genetic support, such as a chromosomal mutation or a plasmid acquisition, and on its impact on cell metabolism, such as an alteration in an essential metabolic pathway or the production of a new enzyme. To provide a global picture of the factors that influence AMR fitness cost, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis focused on a single species, Escherichia coli. By combining results from 46 high-quality studies in a multilevel meta-analysis framework, we find that the fitness cost of AMR is smaller when provided by horizontally transferable genes such as those encoding beta-lactamases, compared to mutations in core genes such as those involved in fluoroquinolone and rifampicin resistance. We observe that the accumulation of acquired AMR genes imposes a much smaller burden on the host cell than the accumulation of AMR mutations, and we provide quantitative estimates of the additional cost of a new gene or mutation. These findings highlight that gene acquisition is more efficient than the accumulation of mutations to evolve multidrug resistance, which can contribute to the observed dominance of horizontally transferred genes in the current AMR epidemic.
Subject
Microbiology (medical),Microbiology
Cited by
3 articles.
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