Harvesting and amplifying gene cassettes confers cross-resistance to critically important antibiotics
biorxiv(2023)
摘要
Amikacin and piperacillin/tazobactam are frequent antibiotic choices to treat bloodstream infection, which is commonly fatal and most often caused by bacteria from the family Enterobacterales . Here we show that two gene cassettes located side-by-side in and ancestral integron similar to In 37 have been “harvested” by insertion sequence IS 26 as a transposon that is already globally disseminated among the Enterobacterales . This transposon encodes the enzymes AAC(6’)-Ib-cr and OXA-1, reported, respectively, as amikacin and piperacillin/tazobactam resistance mechanisms. However, by studying bloodstream infection isolates from 769 patients from, three hospitals serving a population of 1.5 million people in South West England, we show that increased enzyme production due to mutation in an IS 26 /In 37 -derived hybrid promoter or, more commonly, transposon copy number amplification is required to simultaneously remove these two key therapeutic options; in many cases leaving only the last-resort antibiotic, meropenem. These findings may help improve the accuracy of predicting piperacillin/tazobactam treatment failure, allowing stratification of patients to receive meropenem or piperacillin/tazobactam, which may improve outcome and slow the emergence of meropenem resistance.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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