Population biology of 225 serogroup 6 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates collected in China

BMC Infectious Diseases

Yonghong Yang¹  Sangjie Yu¹  Mingming He¹  Kaihu Yao¹  Wei Shi¹ 

[1] Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children and National Key Discipline of Pediatrics (Capital Medical University), Ministry of Education, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Beijing Children’s Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

关键词: Epidemiology;    Children;    Antibiotic resistance;    Serotypes;    Streptococcus pneumoniae;   

Others  :  1125731
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2334-14-467

 received in 2014-04-30, accepted in 2014-08-19,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

In this study, we defined the population biology of serogroup 6 Streptococcus pneumoniae collected in China and their antibiotic resistance profiles.

Methods

The serotypes of 225 S. pneumoniae strains isolated between 1997 and 2011 were identified with the Quellung reaction and serotype-specific PCR. All isolated pneumococci were tested for their sensitivity to 11 kinds of antibiotics with the E-test method or disc diffusion. The sequence types (STs) were analyzed with multilocus sequence typing (MLST).

Results

The frequencies of serotypes and subtypes 6A, 6B-I, 6B-II, 6C, and 6D among the 225 isolates were 46.7% (105/225), 19.6% (44/225), 25.8% (58/225), 6.2% (14/225), and 1.8% (4/225), respectively. Serotype 6E was not found in the serotype 6A isolates, and neither serotype 6F nor 6G was identified in any isolate. MLST analysis revealed 58 STs. The most common STs were ST982 (23.1%), ST90 (14.7%), ST4542 (7.6%), and ST2912 (4.9%). The rates of clonal complex 90 (CC90) and CC386 among the oral-penicillin-nonsusceptible isolates decreased over the years, whereas the rates of CC855 and CC3173 increased. The four CCs had similar penicillin MIC distributions, with a maximum MIC of 2 μg/ml.

Conclusions

This study identified the serotypes/subtypes and CCs/STs of group 6 S. pneumoniae present in China. No salient antibiotic-resistant clones were isolated among the serogroup 6 S. pneumoniae.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Shi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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