Detection of Low-Level Fosfomycin-Resistant Variants by Decreasing Glucose-6-Phosphate Concentration in Fosfomycin Susceptibility Determination

Antibiotics
G Martín-GutiérrezJ Rodriguez-Beltrán

Abstract

Mutations that confer low-level fosfomycin resistance (LLFR) but not clinical resistance in Escherichia coli are increasingly reported. LLFR strains can become clinically resistant under urinary tract physiological conditions or may act as gateways for highly resistant subpopulations by the selection of additional LLFR mutations. Nevertheless, most LLFR strains are impossible to detect under routine fosfomycin susceptibility determinations. Here, we have explored the possibility of detecting LLFR variants by reducing glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) concentration in fosfomycin susceptibility testing for E. coli strains. As a proof of concept, fosfomycin minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and disk diffusion susceptibility tests were performed for E. coli strain BW25113 and 10 isogenic derivatives carrying the most prevalent LLFR chromosomal mutations (∆uhpT, ∆glpT, ∆cyaA, and ∆ptsI) and their double combinations. Whereas standard G6P concentrations detected only ∆uhpT single and double variants, assays with reduced G6P detected all LLFR variants. In addition, G6P levels were determined to be ≤5 µg/mL in urine samples from 30 patients with urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by E. coli and 10 healthy volunteers, suggesting that m...Continue Reading

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