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Cross-resistance to human cationic antimicrobial peptides and to polymyxins mediated by the plasmid-encoded MCR-1?

  • Dobias, Jan Emerging Antibiotic Resistance, Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - INSERM European Unit (IAME, France), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Poirel, Laurent Emerging Antibiotic Resistance, Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - INSERM European Unit (IAME, France), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland - Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Antibiotic Resistance (NARA), Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Nordmann, Patrice Emerging Antibiotic Resistance, Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - INSERM European Unit (IAME, France), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland - Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Antibiotic Resistance (NARA), Fribourg, Switzerland - Insitute for Microbiology, University of Lausanne and University Hospital Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland
    23.03.2017
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  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection. - 2017, vol. 23, no. 9, p. 676.e1-676.e5
English To evaluate whether acquired resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMP) group molecules, being normal components of the human immune system, may select co-resistance to antibiotic peptides such as polymyxins, considering they share the same mechanism of action. We aimed to evaluate strains producing the recently identified plasmid-encoded polymyxin resistance determinant MCR-1, which is a phosphoethanolamine transferase that modifies the lipopolysaccharide structure of Gram-negative bacteria.Methods: In-vitro susceptibility studies using human CAMPs, namely cathelicidin LL-37, α-defensin 5 (HD5) and β-defensin 3 (HDB3), towards MCR-1-producing and colistin-resistant Escherichia coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae were performed.Results: Cross-resistance to CAMPs and colistin mediated by MCR-1 or chromosomal mechanisms was neither observed in E. coli nor in K. pneumoniae.Conclusion: Therefore, the future therapeutic development of human CAMPs may likely not be impeded by the spread of MCR-1 plasmid-mediated resistance to polymyxins, at least in E. coli.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Médecine 3ème année
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  • English
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Biological sciences
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