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Biofouling ; 36(1): 86-100, 2020 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31985269

RESUMO

Staphylococcus lugdunensis is an emerging high-virulent pathogen causative of hospital-acquired infections. Biofilm formation is a complex pathogenic process that leads to well-established bacterial communities. There is a paucity of data on the composition of the biofilm matrix among S. lugdunensis strains. Here, twenty-two S. lugdunensis clinical isolates, mainly from orthopaedic infections but also from other clinical sources, were sub-grouped by ribotyping and dendrogram analysis. Biofilms were analysed by fluorimetric methods based on FITC-Wheat Germ Agglutinin, SYPRO Ruby and TOTO-1 dyes to detect exopolysaccharides, proteins and extracellular DNA (eDNA), respectively. Biofilm morphology was investigated under confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). Isolates displayed intriguing diversities in biofilm mass and matrix composition. The content of exopolysaccharides was found to be to be strongly associated with the biofilm mass (R2 = 0.882), while the content of proteins turned out to be weakly (R2 = 0.465) and that of eDNA very weakly associated (R2 = 0.202) to the biofilm mass.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , DNA Bacteriano/genética , Matriz Extracelular de Substâncias Poliméricas/metabolismo , Polissacarídeos Bacterianos/metabolismo , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Biofilmes/efeitos dos fármacos , Biofilmes/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Farmacorresistência Bacteriana/efeitos dos fármacos , Farmacorresistência Bacteriana/genética , Matriz Extracelular de Substâncias Poliméricas/genética , Humanos , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Microscopia Confocal , Polissacarídeos Bacterianos/genética , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/efeitos dos fármacos , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/metabolismo , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/ultraestrutura
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J Glob Antimicrob Resist ; 20: 260-265, 2020 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31493529

RESUMO

OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated disc diffusion tests and agar screening for detecting mecA-mediated oxacillin resistance in Staphylococcus lugdunensis (S. lugdunensis). METHODS: Staphylococcus lugdunensis isolates (n = 179) from diverse sources in Hong Kong during 1998-2018 were investigated by disc diffusion tests (cefoxitin and oxacillin) and inoculation onto oxacillin (1 µg/mL and 2 µg/mL) and chromID methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) agars. The results were compared with mecA PCR as the reference. Isolates with discordant results were further tested by MIC and penicillin-binding protein 2a (PBP2a) assays. RESULTS: Cefoxitin and oxacillin zone diameters were not distributed in ways that allowed reliable division of the mecA-positive (n = 52) and mecA-negative (n = 127) isolates. On applying the 2019 Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) M100 breakpoints for cefoxitin disc results, there was 88% categorical agreement (CA) and 40% very major error (VME). Screening using 2 µg/mL oxacillin agar reliably differentiated mecA-positive and mecA-negative isolates (100% CA) without any major error (ME) or VME results. The performance of screening using 1 µg/mL oxacillin agar or ChromID MRSA agar was variable (74-89% CA, 0-38% ME and 0-37% VME). The mecA-positive isolates (n = 21) that could not be detected by the cefoxitin disc test were further characterised. The cefoxitin MIC for all 21 isolates was ≤4 µg/mL. Twenty isolates had an oxacillin MIC of 1-2 µg/mL and one had an oxacillin MIC of 4 µg/mL. All had positive PBP2a results and were typed as clonal cluster 27/SCCmec V. CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlight the need to evaluate phenotypic methods using mecA-positive S. lugdunensis with different oxacillin resistance phenotypes.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Cefoxitina/farmacologia , Resistência a Meticilina , Infecções Estafilocócicas/microbiologia , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/classificação , Ágar , Carga Bacteriana , Portador Sadio/microbiologia , Cefoxitina/uso terapêutico , Testes de Sensibilidade a Antimicrobianos por Disco-Difusão , Humanos , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Oxacilina/farmacologia , Fenótipo , Infecções Estafilocócicas/tratamento farmacológico , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/efeitos dos fármacos , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/crescimento & desenvolvimento
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Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis ; 88(4): 298-304, 2017 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28529089

RESUMO

OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical presentation and 1-year follow-up of patients with bone and joint infections (BJIs) caused by Staphylococcus lugdunensis and evaluate its biofilm-forming capacities. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Overall, 28 patients with BJIs from VISLISI clinical trials were included. We evaluated 1-year clinical follow-up and analyzed biofilm production kinetics of the 28 strains using the BioFilm Ring Test®. RESULTS: Of all patients, 12 had osteoarticular infections without material and 16 had prosthetic joint infections, of which 9 underwent a 1-stage revision procedure. At the 1-year follow-up, all patients were cured but needed a surgical intervention. Diabetes affected 46.4% of all patients. Of all, 20 strains (71.4%) started biofilm formation within 2 h, but all strains started the formation after 4 h experiment, and 25 strains (89.3%) reached a maximum after 6 h. CONCLUSIONS: This study describes the clinical and surgical management of BJIs caused by S. lugdunensis and shows that 1-stage prosthesis exchange procedures may be efficient. Further, It shows that biofilm production by this strain was not marginal and directly impacted clinical and surgical management.


Assuntos
Biofilmes/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Osso e Ossos/microbiologia , Articulações/microbiologia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/microbiologia , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Cinética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade
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PLoS One ; 11(12): e0167995, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27930711

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS) and Listeria monocytogenes have important roles in pathogenesis of various genital tract infections and fatal foetomaternal infections, respectively. The aim of our study was to investigate the inhibitory effects of two novel bacteriocins on biofilms of CoNS and L. monocytogenes genital isolates. METHODS: The effects of licheniocin 50.2 from Bacillus licheniformis VPS50.2 and crude extract of bacteriocins produced by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar. diacetylactis BGBU1-4 (BGBU1-4 crude extract) were evaluated on biofilm formation and formed biofilms of eight CoNS (four S. epidermidis, two S. hominis, one S. lugdunensis and one S. haemolyticus) and 12 L. monocytogenes genital isolates. RESULTS: Licheniocin 50.2 and BGBU1-4 crude extract inhibited the growth of both CoNS and L. monocytogenes isolates, with MIC values in the range between 200-400 AU/ml for licheniocin 50.2 and 400-3200 AU/ml for BGBU1-4 crude extract. Subinhibitory concentrations (1/2 × and 1/4 × MIC) of licheniocin 50.2 inhibited biofilm formation by all CoNS isolates (p < 0.05, respectively), while BGBU1-4 crude extract inhibited biofilm formation by all L. monocytogenes isolates (p < 0.01 and p < 0.05, respectively). Both bacteriocins in concentrations of 100 AU/mL and 200 AU/mL reduced the amount of 24 h old CoNS and L. monocytogenes biofilms (p < 0.05, p < 0.01, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that novel bacteriocins have potential to be used for genital application, to prevent biofilm formation and/or to eradicate formed biofilms, and consequently reduce genital and neonatal infections by CoNS and L. monocytogenes.


Assuntos
Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Bacillus licheniformis/fisiologia , Bacteriocinas/farmacologia , Biofilmes/efeitos dos fármacos , Lactococcus lactis/fisiologia , Listeria monocytogenes/efeitos dos fármacos , Staphylococcus/efeitos dos fármacos , Bacillus licheniformis/metabolismo , Biofilmes/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Humanos , Lactococcus lactis/metabolismo , Listeria monocytogenes/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Staphylococcus/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus epidermidis/efeitos dos fármacos , Staphylococcus epidermidis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus haemolyticus/efeitos dos fármacos , Staphylococcus haemolyticus/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus hominis/efeitos dos fármacos , Staphylococcus hominis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/efeitos dos fármacos , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/crescimento & desenvolvimento
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J Biomed Mater Res A ; 104(3): 788-801, 2016 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26378773

RESUMO

Septic failure is still the major complication of prosthetic implants. Entering host cells, bacteria hide from host immune defenses, shelter from extracellular antibiotics, and cause chronic infection. Staphylococcus aureus, the leading etiologic agent of orthopedic implant infections, is able to enter bone cells and induce osteoblast apoptosis, osteoclast recruitment, and highly destructive osteomyelitis. Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus lugdunensis, and Enterococcus faecalis are opportunistic pathogens causative of implant-related infections. This study investigated the ability to internalize into osteoblastic MG63 cells of 22 S. epidermidis, 9 S. lugdunensis, and 21 E. faecalis clinical isolates from orthopedic implant infections. Isolates were categorized in clusters by ribotyping. Internalization assay was carried out by means of a microtiter plate-based method. S. epidermidis, S. lugdunensis, and E. faecalis strains turned out incompetent to enter osteoblasts, exhibiting negligible internalization into MG63 cells, nearly three orders of magnitude lower than that of S. aureus. Osteoblast invasion does not appear as a pathogenetic mechanism utilized by S. epidermidis, S. lugdunensis, or E. faecalis for infecting orthopedic implants. Moreover, it can be inferred that intracellularly active antimicrobials should not be necessary against implant infections caused by the three bacterial species. Finally, implications with the uptake of biomaterial microparticles by nonphagocytic cells are enlightened. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 104A: 788-801, 2016.


Assuntos
Enterococcus faecalis/fisiologia , Osteoblastos/microbiologia , Próteses e Implantes/microbiologia , Infecções Relacionadas à Prótese/microbiologia , Infecções Relacionadas à Prótese/patologia , Staphylococcus epidermidis/fisiologia , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/fisiologia , Aminoglicosídeos/farmacologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Contagem de Colônia Microbiana , Enterococcus faecalis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Enterococcus faecalis/isolamento & purificação , Humanos , Osteoblastos/efeitos dos fármacos , Ribotipagem , Staphylococcus epidermidis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus epidermidis/isolamento & purificação , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/isolamento & purificação
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Microbiologyopen ; 3(2): 182-95, 2014 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24515974

RESUMO

Staphylococcus lugdunensis is both a commensal of humans and an opportunistic pathogen. Little is currently known about the molecular mechanisms underpinning the virulence of this bacterium. Here, we demonstrate that in contrast to S. aureus, S. lugdunensis makes neither staphyloferrin A (SA) nor staphyloferrin B (SB) in response to iron deprivation, owing to the absence of the SB gene cluster, and a large deletion in the SA biosynthetic gene cluster. As a result, the species grows poorly in serum-containing media, and this defect was complemented by introduction of the S. aureus SA gene cluster into S. lugdunensis. S. lugdunensis expresses the HtsABC and SirABC transporters for SA and SB, respectively; the latter gene set is found within the isd (heme acquisition) gene cluster. An isd deletion strain was significantly debilitated for iron acquisition from both heme and hemoglobin, and was also incapable of utilizing ferric-SB as an iron source, while an hts mutant could not grow on ferric-SA as an iron source. In iron-restricted coculture experiments, S. aureus significantly enhanced the growth of S. lugdunensis, in a manner dependent on staphyloferrin production by S. aureus, and the expression of the cognate transporters by S. lugdunensis.


Assuntos
Heme/metabolismo , Hemoglobinas/metabolismo , Staphylococcus aureus/metabolismo , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/metabolismo , Deleção de Genes , Ferro/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana Transportadoras/genética , Proteínas de Membrana Transportadoras/metabolismo , Staphylococcus aureus/genética , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/genética
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Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis ; 76(2): 125-8, 2013 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23523601

RESUMO

A polymerase chain reaction with an injection of the amplicons in an electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (PCR-ESI-MS) technique was evaluated for the diagnosis of bacterial and yeast pathogens on 13 cardiac valves with suspected endocarditis. At the moment of surgery, 3/13 PCR-ESI-MS results matched with microbiological documentation. Nine PCR-ESI-MS results correlated with Duke's criteria, leukocytes, C-reactive protein and blood cultures before surgery. The PCR-ESI-MS result of the last valve failed to confirm the blood culture result obtained fifteen days before. With speed and accuracy, this method may be useful to assert microbiological identification and adapt treatment.


Assuntos
Endocardite Bacteriana/diagnóstico , Valvas Cardíacas/microbiologia , Espectrometria de Massas por Ionização por Electrospray/métodos , Proteína C-Reativa/análise , Candida/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Candida/isolamento & purificação , Cardiobacterium/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Cardiobacterium/isolamento & purificação , DNA Bacteriano/isolamento & purificação , Endocardite Bacteriana/microbiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Projetos Piloto , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase/métodos , Propionibacterium acnes/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Propionibacterium acnes/isolamento & purificação , Staphylococcus aureus/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus aureus/isolamento & purificação , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/isolamento & purificação
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PLoS One ; 8(2): e56373, 2013.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23409177

RESUMO

Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a virulent coagulase-negative staphylococcus. It behaves like and can be mistaken in culture for Staphylococcus aureus. While originally thought to be a skin commensal rarely responsible for opportunistic infection, it was rapidly established as a significant human pathogen. It has been mainly associated with native and prosthetic valve endocarditis, osteomyelitis, and skin and soft tissue cellulitis, but has also been reported as a cause of fasciitis as well as peritonitis. Staphylococcus lugdunensis has been reported as a cause of endometritis but has not been previously isolated from amniotic fluid. Here, amniotic fluid samples were collected in the course of a larger study on amniotic fluid bacteriology, with prior ethical approval and informed patient consent. Amniotic fluid was obtained at Caesarean Section by direct needle aspiration from the intact amnion. Analysis with Staphylococcal API test kits led to identification of Staphylococcus lugdunensis in two cases. The clinical significance of the finding in these reported cases is undetermined. Staphylococcus lugdunensis has been shown to be a cause of serious and potentially fatal morbidities, but this is the first report of its culture from amniotic fluid. As caesarean delivery is accepted as the single most important factor associated with post-partum infectious complications in both mother and neonate, the identification of this pathogen is a new concern.


Assuntos
Líquido Amniótico/microbiologia , Cesárea , Técnicas de Cultura , Achados Incidentais , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/isolamento & purificação , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Gravidez
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Int J Artif Organs ; 35(10): 742-53, 2012 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23065884

RESUMO

The new emerging coagulase-negative pathogen Staphylococcus lugdunensis is responsible for severe cardiac and joint infections. Since the biochemical phenotypic systems designed for the identification of CoNS do not appear to be species specific and are hardly reliable for the discrimination of S. lugdunensis from other staphylococci, its precise identification requires fine molecular methods. The pathogenic mechanisms by which S. lugdunensis causes severe infections are not yet completely elucidated and in this review its virulence and toxic determinants are surveyed as well as its adhesins and biofilm production.


Assuntos
Próteses e Implantes/efeitos adversos , Infecções Relacionadas à Prótese/microbiologia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/microbiologia , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/patogenicidade , Animais , Aderência Bacteriana , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Toxinas Bacterianas/metabolismo , Biofilmes , Humanos , Próteses e Implantes/microbiologia , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/classificação , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/genética , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/isolamento & purificação , Staphylococcus lugdunensis/metabolismo , Virulência , Fatores de Virulência/metabolismo
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