Molecular epidemiology of Enterococcus sp. isolated in a university hospital in Algeria

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Nassima DjahmiJean-Philippe Lavigne

Abstract

The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology of enterococci isolated from infections at an Algerian university hospital, and to evaluate the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and the clonal cluster present in this country. Patients who presented at Annaba University Hospital with Enterococcus infections were prospectively included over a 1-y period (2010). All Enterococcus sp. isolated were characterized by antibiotic resistance, van and erm genes, repetitive sequence-based polymerase chain reaction (rep-PCR), multi-locus sequence typing (MLST), and virulence genes. A total of 125 Enterococcus isolates recovered from 125 patients (59% female; median age 54 y, range 2-86 y) were studied. No differences in epidemiological data were observed between infections by Enterococcus faecalis vs Enterococcus faecium. However a high proportion of E. faecium were resistant to ampicillin (95%). The prevalence of VRE, corresponding to 4 vanC1-Enterococcus gallinarum, was 3.2%. A high level of genomic diversity among strains was noted, with the importance of sequence type (ST) 78 (which belongs to clonal complex (CC) 17) in E. faecium and ST317 and CC2 in E. faecalis. This first study on enterococci isolated in Alg...Continue Reading

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