Mechanisms involved in the development of resistance to fluoroquinolones in Escherichia coli isolates
Mechanisms involved in the development of resistance to fluoroquinolones in Escherichia coli isolates
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DOI:
10.1093/jac/44.6.735
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发表时间:
1999-12-01
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
de Anta, MTJ
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作者:
Tavío, MD;Vila, J;de Anta, MTJ
Eighteen quinolone-resistant isolates of Escherichia coli were selected by exposing ten clinical isolates to increasing concentrations of norfloxacin and lomefloxacin. The mutant isolates showed a multiple-antibiotic-resistance phenotype. All of them contained single mutations in gyrA consisting of the substitution of Ser-83-->Leu (n = 14), Val (n = 1) or Ala (n = 1) and the substitution of Asp-87-->Asn (n = 2). Only one concomitant mutation in parC(Ser-80-->Arg) was detected. Four parent isolates exhibited a single mutation in gyrA which required less than or equal to 1 mg/L of norfloxacin to be inhibited. Fluoroquinolone resistance, in the 18 quinolone-resistant mutants, was a result of mutations affecting DNA gyrase plus decreased fluoroquinolone uptake. This latter mechanism of resistance was a combined effect of an absence of OmpF and an increase in active efflux in eight isolates, or an increased active efflux alone in the remaining ten selected mutants.