[Relationship between drug resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from burn wounds and its mobile genetic elements].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the relationship between the drug resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) isolated from burn patients wounds and its mobile genetic elements, including plasmid, transposon, and integron.


METHODS
Thirty-two strains of PA were isolated from wounds exudate of hospitalized burn patients in Ningbo No. 2 Hospital. PA drug sensitivity was determined using GNS-448 drug sensitivity card and K-B tests. The genetic markers of plasmid, transposon and integron including traA, traF, tnpA, tnpU, merA, int I 1 were amplified by PCR and verified by gene sequencing.


RESULTS
Drug resistant rate of 32 PA strains to gentamicin, amikacin, cefoperazone/sulbactam, ciprofloxacin was 43.7%, 32.0%, 46.8%, 49.9%, respectively. PA drug resistant rates to piperacillin, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, cefepime, aztreonam, piperacillin/tazobactam, levofloxacin, imipenem and meropenem were all above 56.0%. Seventeen out of 32 PA strains were found to carry transposon and (or) integron genetic markers. One strain was positive for both tnpA and merA, 8 strains were positive for both merA and int I 1, 1 strain was only positive for tnpA, 2 strains were only positive for merA, and 5 strains were positive for int I 1 only.


CONCLUSIONS
PA isolated from burn wounds of hospitalized patients in Ningbo No. 2 Hospital is seriously drug resistant, which may relate with its high positive rate of mobile genetic elements of transposon and (or) integron.
Hu
Xi-Hao
XH
Burn Care Center, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo 315010, China.
Xu
Xiao-Min
XM
Mi
Zu-Huang
ZH
Fan
You-Fen
YF
Feng
Wei-Yun
WY
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D002056:Burns / Q000382:microbiology*; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D024901:Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D032023:Integrons; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D010957:Plasmids; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements