Characterization of tetracycline and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in a Spanish hospital: is livestock-contact a risk factor in infections caused by MRSA CC398?

UNLABELLED: Tetracycline-resistance (Tet(R)) has been postulated as a marker of the livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lineage CC398. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY: to determine the spa-types and assigned MLST clonal complexes (CCs) among all 98 MRSA-Tet(R) strains recovered during 2011-2012 (from different patients) in a Spanish Hospital, analyzing the possible correlation with livestock-contact of the patients. All 98 strains were assigned to 9 CCs: CC398 (60.2%), CC1 (19.4%), CC5 (12.2%), and other CCs (8.2%). The 98 patients were classified into three groups: (A) contact with livestock-animals (n=25); (B) no-contact with livestock-animals (n=42); (C) no information about animal contact (n=31). A significant higher percentage of CC398 strains was obtained in group A (76%) than in group B (50%) (p<0.05), being the percentage in group C of 61.3%. Most of MRSA-Tet(R)-CC398 strains presented a multi-resistance phenotype, including erythromycin, clindamycin, and ciprofloxacin, and the most prevalent detected genes were tet(M) and erm(C). Three strains presented the phenotype macrolide-susceptibility/lincosamide-resistance and contained the vga(A) gene. MRSA-CC1 strains showed higher percentages of erythromycin/clindamycin resistance (95%/89%) than MRSA-CC398 strains (58%/63%), and this resistance was usually mediated by erm(C) gene. Most of MRSA-CC5 strains showed resistance to ciprofloxacin, tobramycin/kanamycin and erythromycin. None of the strains presented the genes lukF/lukS-PV, tsst-1, eta, etb or etd. All MRSA-CC398 strains lacked the genes of the immune-evasion-cluster, but MRSA-CC1 strains carried these genes (type E). In conclusion, although MRSA CC398 is detected in a significant higher proportion in patients with livestock-contact; its detection in people without this type of contact also indicates its capacity for human-to-human transmission.

[Kingella kingae pediatric septic arthritis]. / Artritis séptica pediátrica causada por Kingella kingae.

Kingella kingae is a bacterium that colonizes the upper respiratory tract. Despite its low pathogenicity in this location, previous respiratory pathological processes may favor its systemic spread causing bone and joint infections, mainly in children under five years. It can be considered an emerging pathogen in osteoarticular infection in pediatric patients. We report the case of a two-year-old girl with hips pain and limitation of both abduction and extension, and fever. Radiography and ultrasonography were compatible with transitory synovitis; showed scintigraphy inflammatory pathology of the right hip. Articular puncture was performed. The material showed altered biochemical parameters. Microbiological culture yielded isolation of a strain of K. kingae susceptible to beta-lactam antibiotics, azithromycin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Blood cultures were negative. The patient was treated empirically with cloxacillin and cefotaxime iv. and continued with amoxicillin-clavulanate orally with osteoarticular improvement.

Artritis séptica pediátrica causada por Kingella kingae / Kingella kingae pediathric septic arthritis

Kingella kingae es un microorganismo que coloniza el tracto respiratorio superior. A pesar de su baja patogenicidad en esta localización, los procesos patológicos respiratorios previos pueden favorecer su diseminación sistémica y producir infecciones osteoarticulares, principalmente en menores de cinco años. En pacientes pediátricos, se considera un patógeno emergente en la infección osteoarticular. Presentamos el caso de una niña de dos años de edad con cuadro clínico de dolor de caderas, limitación de la abducción y extensión, y fiebre. La radiografía y la ecografía eran compatibles con sinovitis transitoria y la gammagrafía con patología osteoarticular infamatoria de la cadera derecha. Se realizó punción articular y los parámetros bioquímicos arrojaron resultados alterados. Se procesó microbiológicamente y se aisló K. kingae sensible a antibióticos betalactámicos, azitromicina y trimetoprima-sulfametoxazol. Los hemocultivos fueron negativos. Se trató empíricamente con cloxacilina y cefotaxima IV y se continuó oralmente con amoxicilina-clavulánico, con mejoría osteoarticular.

Kingella kingae is a bacterium that colonizes the upper respiratory tract. Despite its low pathogenicity in this location, previous respiratory pathological processes may favor its systemic spread causing bone and joint infections, mainly in children under five years. It can be considered an emerging pathogen in osteoarticular infection in pediatric patients. We report the case of a two-year-old girl with hips pain and limitation of both abduction and extension, and fever. Radiography and ultrasonography were compatible with transitory synovitis; showed scintigraphy infammatory pathology of the right hip. Articular puncture was performed. The material showed altered biochemical parameters. Microbiological culture yielded isolation of a strain of K. kingae susceptible to beta-lactam antibiotics, azithromycin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Blood cultures were negative. The patient was treated empirically with cloxacillin and cefotaxime iv. and continued with amoxicillin-clavulanate orally with osteoarticular improvement.

Artritis séptica pediátrica causada por Kingella kingae / Kingella kingae pediathric septic arthritis

Kingella kingae es un microorganismo que coloniza el tracto respiratorio superior. A pesar de su baja patogenicidad en esta localización, los procesos patológicos respiratorios previos pueden favorecer su diseminación sistémica y producir infecciones osteoarticulares, principalmente en menores de cinco años. En pacientes pediátricos, se considera un patógeno emergente en la infección osteoarticular. Presentamos el caso de una niña de dos años de edad con cuadro clínico de dolor de caderas, limitación de la abducción y extensión, y fiebre. La radiografía y la ecografía eran compatibles con sinovitis transitoria y la gammagrafía con patología osteoarticular infamatoria de la cadera derecha. Se realizó punción articular y los parámetros bioquímicos arrojaron resultados alterados. Se procesó microbiológicamente y se aisló K. kingae sensible a antibióticos betalactámicos, azitromicina y trimetoprima-sulfametoxazol. Los hemocultivos fueron negativos. Se trató empíricamente con cloxacilina y cefotaxima IV y se continuó oralmente con amoxicilina-clavulánico, con mejoría osteoarticular.(AU)

Kingella kingae is a bacterium that colonizes the upper respiratory tract. Despite its low pathogenicity in this location, previous respiratory pathological processes may favor its systemic spread causing bone and joint infections, mainly in children under five years. It can be considered an emerging pathogen in osteoarticular infection in pediatric patients. We report the case of a two-year-old girl with hips pain and limitation of both abduction and extension, and fever. Radiography and ultrasonography were compatible with transitory synovitis; showed scintigraphy infammatory pathology of the right hip. Articular puncture was performed. The material showed altered biochemical parameters. Microbiological culture yielded isolation of a strain of K. kingae susceptible to beta-lactam antibiotics, azithromycin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Blood cultures were negative. The patient was treated empirically with cloxacillin and cefotaxime iv. and continued with amoxicillin-clavulanate orally with osteoarticular improvement.(AU)