Affiliation:
1. Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Centre National de Référence des Haemophilus influenzae
2. Faculté de Médecine Purpan
3. Laboratoire de Virologie, Hôpital Purpan
4. Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Toulouse, France
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The sequences of the
ftsI
gene, encoding the transpeptidase domain of penicillin binding protein (PBP) 3A and/or PBP 3B, which are involved in septal peptidoglycan synthesis, were determined for 108 clinical strains of
Haemophilus influenzae
with reduced susceptibility to β-lactam antibiotics with or without β-lactamase production and were compared to those of the ampicillin-susceptible Rd strain and ampicillin-susceptible clinical isolates. The sequences have 18 different mutation patterns and were classified into two groups on the basis of amino acid substitutions deduced from the nucleotide sequences located between bp 960 and 1618 of the
ftsI
gene. In group I strains (
n
= 7), His-517 was substituted for Arg-517. In group II strains (
n
= 101), Lys-526 was substituted for Asn-526. In subgroup IIa (
n
= 5;
H. influenzae
ATCC 49247), the only observed substitution was Lys-526 for Asn-526; in subgroup IIb (
n
= 56), Val-502 was substituted for Ala-502 (
n
= 13), along with several other substitutions: Asn-350 for Asp-350 (
n
= 15), Asn-350 for Asp-350 and Glu-490 for Gly-490 (
n
= 14), and Asn-350 for Asp-350 and Ser-437 for Ala-437 (
n
= 5). In subgroup IIc (
n
= 25), Thr-502 was substituted for Ala-502. In subgroup IId, Val-449 was substituted for Ile-449 (
n
= 15). The MICs of β-lactam antibiotics for the 108 strains were to 8 to 16 times the MICs for susceptible strains. The strains, isolated from both adults and children, were analyzed for genetic relationship by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and by determination of
ftsI
sequence phylogeny. Both analyses revealed the lack of clonality and the heterogeneity of the strains, but some clusters suggest the spread and/or persistence of a limited number of strains of the same pulsotype and pattern of amino acid substitutions. Reduced susceptibility to β-lactam, brought about by mutations of the
ftsI
gene, is becoming a frequent phenomenon, affecting both strains that produce β-lactamase and those that do not. The level of resistance remains low but opens the way to greater resistance in the future.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology
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