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Comparison of Antibiotic Resistance of Blood Culture Strains and Saprophytic Isolates in the Presence of Biofilms, Formed by the Intercellular Adhesion (ica) Gene Cluster in Staphylococcus epidermidis

  • CHO BONG-GUM (Laboratory of Enteric Infections, Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Health, Department of Applied Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Konkuk University) ;
  • KIM CHEORL-HO (National Research Laboratory for Glycobiology, Ministry of Science and Technology of Korean Government and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dongguk University COM) ;
  • LEE BOK KWON (Laboratory of Enteric Infections, Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Health) ;
  • CHO SEUNG-HAK (Laboratory of Enteric Infections, Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Health)
  • Published : 2005.08.01
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Abstract

To elucidate the question of whether biofilm formed by the intercellular adhesion (ica) gene cluster has influences on antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus epidermidis, we compared 124 skin strains with strains isolated from 50 blood cultures that cause septicemic diseases. The results revealed that the blood culture isolates were more resistant to the antibiotics tested than the saprophytic isolates. Moreover, antibiotic multiresistance was more prevalent in the clinical isolates. In the blood culture isolates, $46\%$ of the strains were resistant to three or more antibiotics, whereas only $12\%$ of the saprophytic isolates were resistant to three or more antibiotics. Interestingly, these characteristics were highly correlated with the biofilm formed by the ica gene cluster. In biofilm-producing strains, $84\%$ of the blood culture isolates and $44\%$ of the saprophytic isolates were antibiotic multiresistant, whereas only $22\%=;and\;9\%$, respectively, were antibiotic multiresistant in biofilm-nonproducing strains. Additionally, in the biofilm-producing ica-positive strains, $89\%$ of the blood culture isolates and $57\%$ of the saprophytic isolates were antibiotic multiresistant. However, the rate of the antibiotic multiresistance in the ica-negative strains was very low, thus indicating that the biofim formed by the lea gene cluster in S. epidermidis is an important pathogenic factor in association with the antibiotic multiresistance.

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