Detection and Prevalence of Active Drug Efflux Mechanism in Various Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains from Turkey
AUTOR(ES)
Hasdemir, Ufuk Over
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The prevalence of active drug efflux pump and porin alterations was investigated in Turkish nosocomial strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae exhibiting a multidrug-resistant phenotype. MICs of various antibiotics, including quinolones, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, and β-lactams, for those strains were determined either with or without the efflux pump inhibitor phenylalanine arginine β-naphthylamide (PAβN). Thirty-nine percent of the strains exhibited a PAβN-modulated resistance for quinolones, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline. In these strains, a significant increase of chloramphenicol accumulation was gained in the presence of the efflux pump inhibitor PAβN or with the energy uncoupler carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone. Moreover, high-level expression of the membrane fusion protein AcrA, which was immunodetected in most of those isolates, suggests that the AcrAB/TolC efflux machinery contributed to their antibiotic resistance. Studies of K. pneumoniae porins indicated that the majority of the strains, including extended-spectrum β-lactamase producers and efflux-positive ones, presented an alteration in their sorbitol-sensitive porin (OmpK35) expression. This is the first report showing the prominent role of active drug efflux in the antibiotic resistance of nosocomial K. pneumoniae strains from Turkey.
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