期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS
卷 37, 期 6, 页码 544-546出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2011.02.006
关键词
New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase; Travel medicine; Multidrug-resistant bacteria
资金
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France)
In this study, we report the development of a rapid real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay with TaqMan (R) probe to detect the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1)-encoding gene directly from bacterial isolates. The specificity of the assay was verified in silico as well as with a large panel of 84 clinically relevant bacteria, including the Klebsiella pneumoniae NCTC 13443 NDM-1-positive reference strain. Using this assay retrospectively on a local series of 44 K. pneumoniae isolates from Marseille Hospitals (France), it was possible to detect and identify an NDM-1-producing K. pneumoniae strain isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage in April 2010 from a French patient repatriated from India after a motorbike accident. Standard PCR amplification and sequencing of the entire NDM-1 gene from this isolate was also performed and the amino acid sequence showed 100% homology with the NDM-1 protein from the K. pneumoniae reference strain. We believe that this real-time PCR assay would be a powerful tool that could be added to other molecular detection assays such as detection of KPC- or OXA-encoding genes for rapid screening and/or identification of carbapenem-resistant bacterial isolates from patients returning from the Asian continent that could be implemented in a point-of-care strategy. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. and the International Society of Chemotherapy. All rights reserved.
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