Comparative analysis of IMP-4- and OXA-58-containing plasmids of three carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter ursingii strains in the Netherlands

Objectives: A recent occurrence of carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter ursingii was reported in the Netherlands and comprised three unrelated strains carrying the blaIMP-4 and blaOXA-58 encoding genes. The objective was to investigate a putative common source of the carbapenemase resistance genes and plasmids in these A. ursingii strains. Methods: Hybrid assembly of short-read and long-read sequencing data was performed using Unicycler and assembled genomes were analysed by ResFinder and PlasmidFinder. Results: Hybrid assemblies of A. ursingii genomes yielded a circular chromosome, a large p... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Antoni P.A. Hendrickx
Rogier P. Schade
Fabian Landman
Thijs Bosch
Leo M. Schouls
Karin van Dijk
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Reihe/Periodikum: Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, Vol 31, Iss , Pp 207-211 (2022)
Verlag/Hrsg.: Elsevier
Schlagwörter: blaIMP-4 / blaOXA-58 / Comparative genomics / Plasmids / Acinetobacter ursingii / Microbiology / QR1-502
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2022.09.006

Objectives: A recent occurrence of carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter ursingii was reported in the Netherlands and comprised three unrelated strains carrying the blaIMP-4 and blaOXA-58 encoding genes. The objective was to investigate a putative common source of the carbapenemase resistance genes and plasmids in these A. ursingii strains. Methods: Hybrid assembly of short-read and long-read sequencing data was performed using Unicycler and assembled genomes were analysed by ResFinder and PlasmidFinder. Results: Hybrid assemblies of A. ursingii genomes yielded a circular chromosome, a large plasmid harboring blaIMP-4 and blaOXA-58 genes (sizes 259–317kb), and four to five other smaller plasmids. ResFinder analyses revealed 16 other acquired resistance genes on the plasmids carrying the blaIMP-4 and blaOXA-58 genes. These 18 genes encode resistance towards eight antibiotic classes. The smaller plasmids did not carry acquired resistance genes. Comparative analysis showed that the three blaIMP-4/blaOXA-58 plasmids were similar (61%–83%) and shared 13 to 17 of the 18 resistance genes. BLAST analysis showed that the blaIMP-4/blaOXA-58 plasmids were not reported before. However, a close match with a 399 kb plasmid from Acinetobacter johnsonii was found (99% similarity, 80% coverage). This A. johnsonii plasmid contains the blaOXA-58 gene, but lacks blaIMP-4, and it shares eight other resistance genes with those present on the A. ursingii blaIMP-4/blaOXA-58 plasmids. Conclusion: Three blaIMP-4/blaOXA-58-carrying plasmids were characterized in three carbapenemase-producing A. ursingii strains. The plasmids were highly similar, suggesting a putative common source or co-selection of resistance genes from A. johnsonii. These results provide initial insights in the dissemination of carbapenem-resistance in A. ursingii in the Netherlands.