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      Susceptibilidad a agentes antimicrobianos de cepas de Neisseria meningitidis aisladas en portadores Translated title: Antimicrobial drug susceptibility of Neisseria meningitidis strains isolated from carriers

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          Cuando se necesita conocer la susceptibilidad de Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) a las drogas antimicrobianas, se debe tener en cuenta que ésta se sitúa en un doble contexto: el relacionado con las drogas utilizadas en el tratamiento médico específico y el quimioprofiláctico, ambos con un mismo objetivo, la selección correcta del antimicrobiano in vivo. Esto obliga a estudiar de forma sistemática, la sensibilidad y resistencia de cepas aisladas en enfermos y portadores. Con el propósito de profundizar en el comportamiento de las cepas que circulan en Cuba actualmente, se realizó un estudio de susceptibilidad antimicrobiana a 90 cepas aisladas en portadores durante el primer semestre de 1998. Se utilizó el método de dilución en agar, determinando las concentraciones mínimas inhibitorias (CMIs) a: penicilina, ampicilina, rifampicina, sulfadiacina sódica, cloranfenicol, ciprofloxacina, ceftriaxona y cefotaxima. Los resultados de Nm in vitro a estas tres últimas drogas se conocen por primera vez en nuestro país. Se realizó también la búsqueda de cepas productoras de β-lactamasa. Predominaron las cepas sensibles a penicilina (82,2%) y con susceptibilidad intermedia a ampicilina (57,8%), mientras que, a sulfadiacina sódica el 70% de las cepas resultaron resistentes. El 100% de las cepas fueron sensibles al resto de los antimicrobianos.Se presentan las CMIs para cada droga y se relacionan las características fenotípicas de las cepas con los patrones de sensibilidad y resistencia a penicilina y sulfadiacina sódica. No se detectaron cepas productoras de β-lactamasa.

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          When it is necessary to determine the susceptibility of Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) strains to antimicrobial drugs, it is important to consider that it should be analyzed in a double context. One of them related to the use of drugs in a specific medical treatment; and the other; to chemoprophylatic drugs, both with the same purpose: the accurate selection of the “in vivo” antimicrobial agent. This requires the study of the sensitivity and resistance of strains isolated in both carriers and patients. With the aim of further studying the behavior of the strains that currently circulate in Cuba, an antimicrobial drug susceptibility study was conducted in 90 strains isolated from carriers during the first half of 1998. The agar dilution method was used to determine the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) to: penicillin, ampicillin, rifampin, sulfadiazine, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime. The study of the three latter drugs was done for the first time in our country. The search for β- lactamase-producer strains was also performed. There was a predominance of penicillin sensitive strains (82,2%) with an intermediate sensitivity to ampicillin (57,8%), while 70% of the strains were sensitive to sulfadiazine. Regarding the rest of the antimicrobial drugs, 100% of the strains were sensitive. The paper shows the MICs for each drug as well as the phenotypic characteristics of the strains with the penicillin and sulfadiazine sensitivity and resistance patterns. No β-lactamase-producer strains were found.

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          Role of interspecies transfer of chromosomal genes in the evolution of penicillin resistance in pathogenic and commensal Neisseria species.

          The two pathogenic species of Neisseria, N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae, have evolved resistance to penicillin by alterations in chromosomal genes encoding the high molecular weight penicillin-binding proteins, or PBPs. The PBP 2 gene (penA) has been sequenced from over 20 Neisseria isolates, including susceptible and resistant strains of the two pathogenic species, and five human commensal species. The genes from penicillin-susceptible strains of N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae are very uniform, whereas those from penicillin-resistant strains consist of a mosaic of regions resembling those in susceptible strains of the same species, interspersed with regions resembling those in one, or in some cases, two of the commensal species. The mosaic structure is interpreted as having arisen from the horizontal transfer, by genetic transformation, of blocks of DNA, usually of a few hundred base pairs. The commensal species identified as donors in these interspecies recombinational events (N. flavescens and N. cinerea) are intrinsically more resistant to penicillin than typical isolates of the pathogenic species. Transformation has apparently provided N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae with a mechanism by which they can obtain increased resistance to penicillin by replacing their penA genes (or the relevant parts of them) with the penA genes of related species that fortuitously produce forms of PBP 2 that are less susceptible to inhibition by the antibiotic. The ends of the diverged blocks of DNA in the penA genes of different penicillin-resistant strains are located at the same position more often than would be the case if they represent independent crossovers at random points along the gene. Some of these common crossover points may represent common ancestry, but reasons are given for thinking that some may represent independent events occurring at recombinational hotspots.
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            Recruitment of a penicillin-binding protein gene from Neisseria flavescens during the emergence of penicillin resistance in Neisseria meningitidis.

            Non-beta-lactamase-producing, penicillin-resistant strains of Neisseria meningitidis produce altered forms of penicillin-binding protein 2 that have decreased affinity for penicillin. The sequence of the penicillin-binding protein 2 gene (penA) from a penicillin-resistant strain of N. meningitidis was compared to the sequence of the same gene from penicillin-sensitive strains and from penicillin-sensitive and penicillin-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The penA genes from penicillin-sensitive strains of N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis were 98% identical. The gene from the penicillin-resistant strain of N. meningitidis consisted of regions that were almost identical to the corresponding regions in the penicillin-sensitive strains (less than 0.2% divergence) and two regions that were very different from them (approximately 22% divergence). The two blocks of altered sequence have arisen by the replacement of meningococcal sequences with the corresponding regions from the penA gene of Neisseria flavescens and result in an altered form of penicillin-binding protein 2 that contains 44 amino acid substitutions and 1 amino acid insertion compared to penicillin-binding protein 2 of penicillin-sensitive strains of N. meningitidis. A similar introduction of part of the penA gene of N. flavescens, or a very similar commensal Neisseria species, appears to have occurred independently during the development of altered penA genes in non-beta-lactamase-producing penicillin-resistant strains of N. gonorrhoeae.
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              The carrier state: Neisseria meningitidis.

              C V Broome (1986)
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                Vaccimonitor
                Vaccimonitor
                Finlay Ediciones (Ciudad de la Habana )
                1025-0298
                June 2000
                : 9
                : 2
                : 7-13
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                [1 ] Instituto Finlay Cuba
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                S1025-028X2000000200002
                2871df53-3e99-4595-8ad7-934b3cee0379

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                General life sciences
                N. meningitidis,susceptibility,resistance,antibiotics,sensibilidad,resistencia,antibióticos

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