Abstract
ObjectivesTo compare antibiotic susceptibilities between chromosomal and plasmid blaCTX‐M‐15 locations in urinary tract infection‐causing extended‐spectrum β‐lactamases‐producing Escherichia coli blaCTX‐M‐15 isolated in Indonesia.MethodsA total of 84 strains identified as extended‐spectrum β‐lactamases‐producing E. coli were isolated from patients with urinary tract infection in Indonesia in 2015. Antimicrobial susceptibility tests were performed on these strains using 18 antibiotics, and extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase bla genes were detected by polymerase chain reaction. Gene localization of blaCTX‐M‐15‐positive strains was confirmed by Southern blot hybridization, and epidemiological typing was conducted using multilocus sequence typing.ResultsOf 54 strains harboring the blaCTX‐M‐15 gene, 27 showed localization on chromosome, 20 on plasmid, and seven on chromosome and plasmid. Most multilocus sequence typing sequence types of the 27 strains with chromosomal blaCTX‐M‐15 were ST405 (25.9%) and ST131 (22.2%) strains, whereas the 20 strains with plasmid‐blaCTX‐M‐15 were mostly ST410 (55.0%).ConclusionsExtended‐spectrum β‐lactamases‐producing E. coli blaCTX‐M‐15 with plasmid genes show significantly higher resistant rates against piperacillin‐tazobactam but lower resistant rates against chloramphenicol compared to chromosomal strains in Indonesian patients with urinary tract infection. Mechanistic investigations will be necessary to advance our knowledge of antimicrobial resistance in urinary tract infection.
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