Author:
Zakerifar Mona,Kaboosi Hami,Goli Hamid Reza,Rahmani Zahra,Peyravii Ghadikolaii Fatemeh
Abstract
Abstract
Background
The antibiotic resistance of genital tract colonizing Streptococcus agalactiae in pregnant women is increasing. We aimed to determine the antibiotic resistance genes of different clonal types of this bacterium in pregnant women.
Methods
Four hundred twenty non-repeated vaginal and rectal specimens were collected from pregnant women and were transferred to the laboratory using Todd Hewitt Broth. The samples were cultured on a selective medium, and the grown bacteria were identified by standard microbiological and biochemical tests. Antimicrobial resistance pattern and inducible clindamycin resistance of the isolates were determined using the disk agar diffusion method. The genomic DNAs of S. agalactiae strains were extracted using an extraction kit, and the antibiotic resistance genes and RAPD types were detected using the PCR method.
Results
The average age of the participants was 30.74 ± 5.25 years. There was a significant relationship between the weeks of pregnancy and the number of positive bacterial cultures (P-value < 0.05). Moreover, 31 pregnant women had a history of abortion, and 18 had a history of membrane rupture. Among 420 specimens, 106 S. agalactiae isolates were detected. The highest antibiotic resistance rate was found against tetracycline (94.33%), and all isolates were susceptible to linezolid. Moreover, 15, 15, 42, and 7 isolates showed an iMLSB, M-, cMLSB, and L-phenotype. The ermB was the most prevalent resistance gene in the present study, while 38 (35.84%), 8 (7.54%), 79 (74.52%), 37 (34.9%), and 20 (18.86%) isolates were contained the ermTR, mefA/E, tetM, tetO, and aphA3 gene, respectively.
Conclusions
The high-level antibiotic resistance and prevalence of resistance genes may be due to the arbitrarily use, livestock industry consumption, and the preventive use of antibiotics in pregnant women. Thus, the need to re-considering this problem seems to be necessary.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Obstetrics and Gynecology
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