Antimicrobial Drug Resistance and Transferable Resistance Plasmid in Escherichia coli

대장균(大腸菌)의 항균제내성(抗菌劑耐性) 및 전달성(傳達性) Plasmid

One hundred and twenty-one strains each of Escherichia coli isolated from stools of 60 patients who received various antimicrobial drugs in hospital for more than one week and apparently healthy 60 students who have no history of taking antimicrobial drugs during recent one month, were tested for their resistance to 13 antimicrobial drugs. The frequency of resistance strains was highest to tetracycline with 69.2%, and followed by streptomycin(Sm), sulfisomidine(Su), chloramphenicol(Cm), ampicillin(Ap), and carbenicillin(Cb) in the decreasing order, ranging from 61.2% to 39.3%. Strains resistant to kanamycin(Km), cephaloridine(Cr), and trimethoprim(Tp) occupied about one-fourth of strains, and only four strains were resistant either one or more of nalidixic acid, gentamicin and amikacin, and no strain was resistant to rifampicin. The frequency of resistant strains to Cm, Ap, Km, Cr, and Cb was much higher among patient isolates than student strains, but strains resistant to the other drugs showed almost the same frequencies between patient and student isolates. There was a marked difference in average minimum inhibitory concentrations of between resistant and susceptible strains, suggesting that the resistance to drugs is the plasmid origin. Seventy-six percent of strains were resistant to one to 10 drugs tested, and no much difference was observed between strains from patients and students. However, strains resistant to four or more drugs were much more frequently found among patient isolates than student strains, with the increasing tendency of multiply resistant strains among patient isolates following the increase in the number of resistant drugs. The transfer of drug resistance by conjugation was tested and 98 strains(67.5%) among 145 which were resistant to two or more drugs were found to transfer their drug resistance to E. coli. Among 74 strains resistant to 7 or more drugs, all except one transferred the resistance, and the number of strains with transferable resistance decreased, as the number of resistant drugs decrease. A R plasmid from randomly selected p13 strain was tested for the incompatibility group, and the plasmid was classified into Inc F II. R plasmM DNA bands were identified by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

각종질환(各種疾患)으로 입원(入院)하여 항균제투여(抗菌劑投與)를 받은 환자(患者)와 최근(最近) 1개월간(個月間) 항균제(抗菌劑)를 투여(投與)받지 않은 학생(學生) 각(各) 60명(名)의 대변(大便)을 배양(培養)하여 각각(各各) 121주(株), 합계(合計) 242주(株)의 대장균(大腸菌)을 얻어 12종(種)의 항균제(抗菌제劑)에 대한 내성양상(耐性樣相)을 조사(調査)하였다. 내성빈도(耐性頻度)를 보면 tetracycline에 대(對)한 내성균(耐性菌)이 68.2%로 가장 많았고 streptomycin(Sm) 61.2%, sulfisomidine(Su) 50%, chtoramphenicol(Cm) 40.9%, ampicillin(Ap) 40.1%, carbenicillin(Cb), 39.3%의 순(順)으로 내성균(耐性菌)의 비율(比率)이 낮아졌고 kanafnycin(Km) cephaleridine(Cr) 및 trimethoprim(Tp)에 내성(耐性)인 균(菌)은 약(約) 1/4이었고 nalidixicacid, gentamicin 및 amikacin에는 4주(株)씩 만이 내성(耐性)이고 rifampicin에 내성(耐性)인 균(菌)은 없었다. 환자유래균(患者由來菌)과 학생유래균(學生由來菌)을 비교(比較)하여 보면 Cm, Ap, Km, Cr 또는 Cb 내성(耐性)은 환자유래균(患者由來菌)에서 학생유래균(學生由來菌)보다 월등(越等)히 많았으며 Sm, Su 또는 Tp 내성균(耐性菌)도 다소(多少) 많았으나 기타(其他) 항균제(抗菌劑)에 대(對)한 내성균(耐性菌)에서는 차이(差異)를 볼 수 없었다. 내성균(耐性菌)과 감수성균(感受性菌)에 대(對)한 각(各) 항균제(抗菌劑)의 최소(最少) 발육저지농도(發育阻止濃度)에는 큰 차이(差異)가 있어서 이들 내성(耐性)이 주(主)로 R plasmid에 유래(由來)함을 시사(示唆)하였다. 공시균(供試菌)의 76%가 $1{\sim}10$제(劑) 이상(以上)의 약제(藥劑)에 내성(耐性)이었는데 4제(劑) 이상(以上)의 항균제(抗菌劑)에 내성(耐性)인 균(菌)은 환자유래균(患者由來菌)에서 학생유래균(學生由來菌)에서 보다 많았으며 다약제내성(多藥劑耐性)일수록 환자유래균(患者由來菌)에서 많았다. 2제(劑) 이상(以上)의 항균제(抗菌劑)에 내성(耐性)인 균(菌)에 접합(接合)에 의한 내성전달(耐性傳達)을 145주중(株中) 98주(株)(67.5%)가 내성(耐性)을 전달(傳達)하였으며 7제(劑) 이상(以上)에 내성(耐性)인 균(菌)은 1주(株)를 제외(除外)한 전부(全部)(73주(株))가 그 내성(耐性)을 피전달균(被博達菌)에 전달(傳達)시켰고 다약제내성(多藥劑耐性)의 약제수(藥劑數)가 적을수록 전달성내성(傳達性耐性)을 가진 균(菌)이 적었다. 전달(傳達)되는 내성양상(耐性樣相)은 내성균주(耐性菌株)에 따라 다르며 피전달균(被博達菌)에 따라서도 달랐다. 임의(任意)로 선택(選擇)한 P13균주(菌株)의 R plasmid의 비적합성군(非適合性群)을 보았던바, 이 plasmid는 F II군(群)에 속(屬)함이 판명(判明)되었다. Gel electrophoresis에 의하여 대장균(大腸菌) R plasmid DNA의 형광대(螢光帶)를 증명(證明)할 수 있었다.