| Literature DB >> 31746994 |
Matthew J Ellington1,2, Frances Davies3, Elita Jauneikaite1,4, Katie L Hopkins1,2, Jane F Turton2, George Adams3, Jiri Pavlu3, Andrew J Innes3, Christopher Eades3, Eimear T Brannigan3, Jacqueline Findlay2, Leila White5, Frances Bolt3, Tokozani Kadhani3, Yimmy Chow6, Bharat Patel7, Siddharth Mookerjee3, Jonathan A Otter1,3, Shiranee Sriskandan1, Neil Woodford1,2, Alison Holmes1,3.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Early and accurate treatment of infections due to carbapenem-resistant organisms is facilitated by rapid diagnostics, but rare resistance mechanisms can compromise detection. One year after a Guiana Extended-Spectrum (GES)-5 carbapenemase-positive Klebsiella oxytoca infection was identified by whole-genome sequencing (WGS; later found to be part of a cluster of 3 cases), a cluster of 11 patients with GES-5-positive K. oxytoca was identified over 18 weeks in the same hospital.Entities:
Keywords: zzm321990 Klebsiella oxytocazzm321990 ; Enterobacterales; GES-5 plasmid; outbreak
Year: 2020 PMID: 31746994 PMCID: PMC7744980 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz1130
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079
Patient Characteristics, Sites, or Specimens That GES-5 Producers Were Isolated From and the Month of Isolation (Relative to the Study Hospital Investigation)
| Patient/Sample Identifier | Clinical Area/Geographic Region | Isolate Species and Identifier | MLST | Specimen Site | Month of Isolationa | Temporal- spatial Clustering |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Hematology | Kox-A Kox-A.2 Kox-A.3 Kox-A.4 | ST138 ST138 ST138 ST138 | Urine BAL Rectal screen blood | 18–20 | 2 2 2 2 |
| B | Hematology | Kox-B Kox-B.2 | ST138 ST138 | Rectal screen Rectal screen | 19 | 2 2 |
| C | Hematology | Kox-C | ST138 | Rectal screen | 19 | 2 |
| D | Hematology | Kox-D | ST138 | Rectal screen | 19 | 2 |
| E | Hematology | Kox-E | ST138 | Rectal screen | 19 | 2 |
| F | Hematology | Kox-F | ST138 | Rectal screen | 19 | 2 |
| G | Hematology | Kox-G | ST138 | Rectal screen | 20 | 2 |
| H | Hematology | Kox-H | ST138 | Rectal screen | 20 | 2 |
| I | Hematology | Kox-I Kox-I.2 | ST138 ST138 | Rectal screen Rectal screen | 21 | 2 2 |
| J | Hematology | Kox-J | ST138 | Rectal screen | 21 | 2 |
| K | Hematology | Kox-K | ST138 | Rectal screen | 22 | 2 |
| Z | Cardiothoracic/ITU | Kox-Z | ST138 | Urine | 6 | 1 |
| Y | Cardiothoracic/ITU | Kox-Y | ST138 | Wound | 10 | 1 |
| X | Cardiothoracic/ITU | Kox-X | ST138 | Throat swab | 10 | 1 |
| W | Neurology | Ecl-W | ST66 | Rectal screen | 21 | 2a |
| V | Renal | Eco-V | ST101 | Rectal screen | 25 | 2a |
| Water_Ub | Northwest England | Kox-U | ST236 | Wastewater | −1 | Remote site |
| Scot_T | Scotland | Kpn-T | ST147 | Rectal screen | 19 | Remote site |
| Lon_S | London center 2 | Eco-S | ST405 | Rectal screen | +3 | Remote site |
Bacterial identifiers, including species codes, are shown alongside multilocus sequence types. Temporal cluster assignations were assigned around 2 clusters from the same hospital: 1, the historical cluster; 2, the cluster associated with the recognized index case; 2a, non–Klebsiella oxytoca isolated at the same National Health Service trust around the same time as cluster 2. The temporally diverse isolates from geographically remote sites in the United Kingdom are also shown (remote sites).
Abbreviations: BAL, bronchoalveolar lavage; Ecl, Enterobacter cloacae; Eco, Escherichia coli; ITU, intensive therapy unit, Kox, Klebsiella oxytoca; Kpn, Klebsiella pneumoniae; MLST, multilocus sequence typing; ST, sequence type.
aSee timeline (Figure 1A).
bPublished previously [19].
Figure 1.Two clusters of GES-5–producing Klebsiella oxytoca sequence type (ST) 138 occurred in patients at a single hospital over 18 months in 2 clinical departments. Events highlighted in red and purple shading indicate different clinical departments. The timeline (A) shows the temporal separation of the clusters along with major events for outbreak detection and management. The phylogenetic tree (B) based on WGS single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis showed discrete genetic clustering of the isolates. Single SNPs are represented by graded coloration (purple or pink to distinguish between bacterial isolates from different clinical departments); the larger SNP distances in cluster 1 (red) are shown as alternating color blocks of 5 SNPs. The founding SNP profile for cluster 2 (purple) was shared by isolates Klebsiella oxytoca (Kox) A, G, and J. Transmission routes (C) derived from the accumulation of SNPs in patient isolates (in black arrows) refuted the hypothesized epidemiological links (dotted arrows) for a cascade of transmission in the second cluster, as well as proposed links between patient Y (dotted arrows) and the second cluster, but supported the isolate from patient Z as a progenitor for the founder of the second cluster. Abbreviations: CPE, carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; ST, sequence type; WGS, whole-genome sequencing.
Figure 2.GES-5 encoding plasmids pHPRU111 (GES-5) and pJF-707 were unique in the nucleotide database (National Center for Biotechnology Information, GenBank, last accessed 27 December 2018). All comparators varied in the gene content of the integron and resistance regions (framed area). Backbone regions (nonframed area) varied in percentage identity from pUL3AT (Enterobacter cloacae, effluent, France 2007) and pFECR (uncultured bacterium, wastewater, Canada, circa 2017) and orientation relative to the resistance region of pQ7 (Escherichia coli, human, Switzerland, 1998). Abbreviation: BLAST, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool.