Molecular mechanism of cephalosporin resistance of neisseria gonorrhoeae in Vietnam 2019 – 2020

Trinh Minh Trang, Nguyen Thi Tam, Le Viet Thanh, Pham Thi Minh Phuong, Pham Thi Lan, H.Rogier van Doorn

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Cephalosporin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) strains have been increasing. 35 NG isolates that resisted to cephalosporin on biogram collected from 3 hospitals of dermatology and venereology in Vietnam were whole genome sequenced to determine antimicrobial resistant (AMR) genes. There were 13/35 isolates belonged to ST1901, 11/35: ST 13871. There were 16 different AMR genes. 74% of the isolates possessed mosaic penA 60.001 and 11% mosaic penA 10.001. These penA allens contained 6 key mutations responsible for ESC resistance (A311V, T483S, A501P, G545S, I312M v‡ V316T) and some novel mutations. mtrR mutants was seen in 74.2% of the isolates. All of them had Adenine deletion mutation on mtR promoter. The level of ceftriaxone resistance was relevant to FC428 strains but lower in cefixim resistance. The NG isolates (ST1901 and ST 13871) are related to cephalosporin-resistant strains detected in Japan that are currently spreading worldwide. Most of them possessed mosaic penA 60.001 and penA10.001, mtrR/mtrR promoter. These AMR genes contained typical mutations responsible for cephalosporin resistance and different novel mutations.


 

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