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Inoculum effect of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus against broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotics
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- Issue Date
- 2019-01
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag
- Citation
- European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Vol.38 No.1, pp.67-74
- Abstract
- Scarce information concerning the inoculum effect (InE) of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) against broad-spectrum -lactam antibiotics is available. We investigated the InE of MSSA against ceftriaxone, cefepime, meropenem, ampicillin/sulbactam and piperacillin/tazobactam. The bacteraemic MSSA isolates were collected at ten Korean general hospitals from Sep 2013 to Mar 2015. The InE was defined if MICs of antibiotics at high inoculum (HI, similar to 5 x 10(7) CFU/ml) increased beyond the susceptible range compared to those at standard inoculum (SI, similar to 5 x 10(5) CFU/ml). All isolates were sequenced for blaZ gene typing. Among 302 MSSA isolates, 254 (84.1%) were positive for blaZ; types A, B, C and D were 13.6%, 26.8%, 43.4% and 0.3%, respectively. Mean HI MICs of all tested antibiotics were significantly increased and increases in HI MIC of piperacillin/tazobactam (HI, 48.14 +/- 4.08 vs. SI, 2.04 +/- 0.08 mg/L, p < 0.001) and ampicillin/sulbactam (HI, 24.15 +/- 1.27 vs. SI, 2.79 +/- 0.11 mg/L, p < 0.001) were most prominent. No MSSA isolates exhibited meropenem InE, and few isolates exhibited cefepime (0.3%) and ceftriaxone (2.3%) InE, whereas 43.0% and 65.9% of MSSA isolates exhibited piperacillin/tazobactam and ampicillin/sulbactam InE, respectively. About 93% of type C blaZ versus 45% of non-type C exhibited ampicillin/sulbactam InE (p < 0.001) and 88% of type C blaZ versus 9% of non-type C exhibited piperacillin/tazobactam InE (p < 0.001). A large proportion of MSSA clinical isolates, especially those positive for type C blaZ, showed marked ampicillin/sulbactam InE and piperacillin/tazobactam.
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- 0934-9723
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