First Report of bla(IMP-8) in Raoultella planticola

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2014;58(1):593-5. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00231-13. Epub 2013 Oct 21.

Abstract

Two carbapenem-resistant Raoultella planticola clinical isolates were isolated from patients with pneumonia and Port-A catheter-related bacteremia, respectively, in Taiwan. These isolates remained susceptible to fluoroquinolone, aminoglycoside, and colistin. Though the two isolates had the same antibiogram, plasmidic carbapenemase blaIMP-8, class 1 integron cassette (dfrA12-orfF-aadA2), and qnrB2, they had different pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns, plasmid sizes, and outer membrane protein loss profiles. To our knowledge, this is the first report of blaIMP-8 found in R. planticola. Interestingly, blaIMP-8 is the most common carbapenemase found in Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan. In the literature, carbapenemase genes in R. planticola in each country were also found in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in the same country.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae / enzymology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Peptostreptococcus / enzymology*
  • beta-Lactamases / metabolism*

Substances

  • IMP-8 enzyme
  • beta-Lactamases