Rapid evolution of fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in Nigeria is temporally associated with fluoroquinolone use

BMC Infectious Diseases

Research Article

Rebeccah S Lijek¹  Jennifer L Crowe¹  Iruka N Okeke¹  Babatunde W Odetoyin²  A Oladipo Aboderin²  Adebayo Lamikanra³  John Wain⁴ 

[1] Department of Biology, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, 19041, Haverford, PA, USA;Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria;Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria;Health Protection Agency, Colindale, NW9 5EQ, London, UK;

关键词: antimicrobial resistance;    antimicrobial use;    quinolone resistance;    drug resistance;    ciprofloxacin;    fluoroquinolones;    selective pressure;    Nigeria;    chloroquine;    antimalarial;    fluoroquinolone-resistant;    Escherichia coli;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2334-11-312

 received in 2011-06-25, accepted in 2011-11-07,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundAntibiotic resistance has necessitated fluoroquinolone use but little is known about the selective forces and resistance trajectory in malaria-endemic settings, where selection from the antimalarial chloroquine for fluoroquinolone-resistant bacteria has been proposed.MethodsAntimicrobial resistance was studied in fecal Escherichia coli isolates in a Nigerian community. Quinolone-resistance determining regions of gyrA and parC were sequenced in nalidixic acid resistant strains and horizontally-transmitted quinolone-resistance genes were sought by PCR. Antimicrobial prescription practices were compared with antimicrobial resistance rates over a period spanning three decades.ResultsBefore 2005, quinolone resistance was limited to low-level nalixidic acid resistance in fewer than 4% of E. coli isolates. In 2005, the proportion of isolates demonstrating low-level quinolone resistance due to elevated efflux increased and high-level quinolone resistance and resistance to the fluoroquinolones appeared. Fluoroquinolone resistance was attributable to single nucleotide polymorphisms in quinolone target genes gyrA and/or parC. By 2009, 35 (34.5%) of isolates were quinolone non-susceptible with nine carrying gyrA and parC SNPs and six bearing identical qnrS1 alleles. The antimalarial chloroquine was heavily used throughout the entire period but E. coli with quinolone-specific resistance mechanisms were only detected in the final half decade, immediately following the introduction of the fluoroquinolone antibacterial ciprofloxacin.ConclusionsFluoroquinolones, and not chloroquine, appear to be the selective force for fluoroquinolone-resistant fecal E. coli in this setting. Rapid evolution to resistance following fluoroquinolone introduction points the need to implement resistant containment strategies when new antibacterials are introduced into resource-poor settings with high infectious disease burdens.

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© Lamikanra et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.