title: Klebsiella pneumoniae: Development of Carbapenem Resistance due to Acquisition of bla NDM-1 During Antimicrobial Therapy in Twin Infants with Pneumonia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify the mechanism of in vivo development of carbapenem resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seven sequential isolates of K. pneumoniae were obtained from twin infants with pneumonia. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by agar dilution method. Carbapenemases including KPC and MβL were initially screened using phenotypic methods, and carbapenemase-encoding genes were identified by polymerase chain reaction and amplicon sequencing. Plasmids of all clinical isolates and the conjugants of resistant isolates were estimated by S1 pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Molecular typing were conducted by PFGE of XbaI-digested genomic DNA and multilocus sequence typing.
  
  
  RESULTS
  For old brother, the first and third isolates were susceptible to meropenem, whereas the second and fourth isolates were resistant (MICs 16 mg/L). The first and second isolates from the young brother were susceptible to meropenem whereas the third isolate was resistant. All the resistant isolates produced NDM-1 metallo-β-lactamase. PFGE of XbaI-digested DNA revealed almost identical patterns with similarity indices of above 92% for all the seven isolates. All the isolates had the same sequence type named sequence type 37 (ST37).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To our knowledge, this is the first documented case of development of carbapenem resistance in vivo mediated by NDM-1 metallo-β-lactamase in K. pneumoniae during treatment of pneumonia with meropenem.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai Children's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Junying
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital, Fudan UniversityShanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of Antibiotics, Ministry of HealthShanghai, China.
authors.forename: Baixing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: Institute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital, Fudan UniversityShanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of Antibiotics, Ministry of HealthShanghai, China.
authors.forename: Xiaogang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital, Fudan UniversityShanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of Antibiotics, Ministry of HealthShanghai, China.
authors.forename: Demei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital, Fudan UniversityShanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of Antibiotics, Ministry of HealthShanghai, China.
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai Children's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital, Fudan UniversityShanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of Antibiotics, Ministry of HealthShanghai, China.
authors.forename: Fupin
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hu
keywords: Klebsiella pneumoniae; NDM-1 metallo-β-lactamase; development of carbapenem resistance; in vivo; meropenem