Detection of KPC-3 producing Escherichia coli ST410 in Volos, Greece

Chatzidimitriou, Maria and Tsolakidou, Pandora and Kyriazidi, Maria Anna and Mitka, Stella (2024) Detection of KPC-3 producing Escherichia coli ST410 in Volos, Greece. Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica, 71 (4). pp. 285-288. ISSN 1217-8950

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Abstract

Escherichia coli A382 was isolated in July 2024 from a positive blood culture obtained from the central venous catheter of a male patient undergoing chemotherapy at the Hospital of Volos, Thessaly, Greece. Whole-genome sequencing analysis revealed that the isolate A382 is E. coli belonging to the ST410 high-risk clone, which co-harbors the blaKPC-3 and blaSHV-182 genes on an IncX3 plasmid. It also harbors blaTEM-1 and has five replicons, as follows: IncX3, IncQ1, CoIRNAI, IncF1A, and IncFIB. Complete genome analysis revealed that E. coli A382 isolate carries a range of virulence factors (iutA, iucC, fimH, fdeC, yehA, yehD, yehC, yehB, cgs, ahha, ccI, hlyE, papC, irp2, fyuA, lpfA, and nlpl) and many other non-beta-lactam resistance determinants, including dfrA14 and sul2, but it is susceptible to aminoglycosides, nitrofurantoin, tigecycline, colistin and ceftazidime-avibactam. In conclusion in this study, we describe the phenotypic and genome characteristics of an extensively drug-resistant E. coli ST410.

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