Unusual Occurrence of M Type 77, Antibiotic-Resistant Group A Streptococci in Southern Sweden
AUTOR(ES)
Jasir, A.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
For many years group A streptococci of T type 28 (T28) have been common in southern Sweden; however, since 1995 resistance to both macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B (MLS) antibiotics and tetracycline was observed among T28 isolates, which prompted the present studies on clonal relatedness of antibiotic-resistant T28 strains. By extended T typing, 95 of 100 examined tetracycline-resistant strains showed the combination T9-T13-T28; of these, 94 belonged to M type 77 (M77) and one belonged to M73. Three strains were T28-M28 and two were T28-M nontypeable. The serological M77 was confirmed by PCR capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, emm amplicon restriction profiling, and emm sequence typing. Fifty strains were examined for superantigen genes: speA was detected in three blood isolates only, whereas all isolates harbored speB, and only two of the strains were negative for speC. Eighty-nine of the 100 strains were also macrolide resistant, of which 59 were inducibly MLS resistant (IR) and 21 were constitutively MLS resistant (CR), 6 were noninducibly resistant (NI), and 3 had novel subphenotypes recently reported by our group. Resistance genes were determined by PCR and hybridization methods. Eighty-four of the 100 strains harbored tetM. ermB was detected in all CR and IR strains, and mefA was found in all NI strains; both ermB and mefA were identified in two strains with novel subphenotypes. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed that these antibiotic-resistant M77 strains belonged to at least five different clones.
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