Antimicrobial Resistance in <i>Enterobacterales</i> Bacilli Isolated from Bloodstream Infection in Surgical Patients of Polish Hospitals

Kłos, M.; Pomorska-Wesołowska, M.; Romaniszyn, D.; Wójkowska-Mach, J.; Chmielarczyk, A.

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Volume 2021 | Article ID 6687148 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6687148

Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterobacterales Bacilli Isolated from Bloodstream Infection in Surgical Patients of Polish Hospitals

M. Kłos,¹M. Pomorska-Wesołowska,²D. Romaniszyn,³J. Wójkowska-Mach,³and A. Chmielarczyk³

Academic Editor: Carlo Genovese

Received05 Oct 2020

Revised12 Dec 2020

Accepted05 Jan 2021

Published16 Jan 2021

Abstract

Background and Aims. Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are one of the most frequently observed hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). We sought to describe the epidemiology and drug resistance secondary Enterobacterales BSIs in surgical patients and check for any correlation with the type of hospital ward. Materials and Methods. This multicenter (13 hospitals in southern Poland) laboratory-based retrospective study evaluated adults diagnosed with BSI secondary to surgical site infection (SSI) hospitalized in 2015–2018; 121 Enterobacterales strains were collected. The drug resistance was tested according to the EUCAST recommendations. Tests confirming the presence of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) and bla resistance genes were carried out. The occurrence of possible clonal epidemics among K. pneumoniae strains was examined. Results. The prevalence of Enterobacterales in secondary BSI was 12.1%; the most common strains were E. coli (n = 74, 61.2%) and Klebsiella spp. (n = 33, 27.2%). High resistance involved ampicillin and ampicillin/sulbactam (92, 8–100%), fluoroquinolones (48–73%), and most cephalosporins (29–50%). Carbapenems were the antimicrobials with the susceptibility at 98%. The prevalence of ESBL strains was 37.2% (n = 45). All the ESBL strains had bla_CTX-M gene, 26.7% had the bla_SHV gene, and 24.4% had bla_TEM gene. The diversity of Klebsiella strains was relatively high. Only 4 strains belonged to one clone. Conclusions. What is particularly worrying is the high prevalence of Enterobacterales in BSI, as well as the high resistance to antimicrobial agents often used in the empirical therapy. To improve the effectiveness of empirical treatment in surgical departments, we need to know the epidemiology of both surgical site infection and BSI, secondary to SSI. We were surprised to note high heterogeneity among K. pneumoniae strains, which was different from our previous experience.

1. Introduction

In recent years, data concerning the epidemiology of bloodstream infections (BSI) have indicated a change in the prevalence of their microbial etiological agents. Gram-negative pathogens are predominant as the major causes of bacteremia, and according to researchers, the proportion of Escherichia coli increased by 33% and amounted to as many as ¼ of all pathogens and among patients of over 75 years of age, even by over 30% [1]. Enterobacterales bloodstream infection (BSI) is one of the most frequently observed hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), especially in surgical patients. All over the world, also in Poland, there are significantly more secondary BSIs, a fact that calls for immediate measures taken in order to prevent and control BSI in adults.

In 1983, strains with the extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) mechanism were first observed, and this phenotype quickly became dominant among Gram-negative resistant strains. Genes transmitted mainly by plasmids are responsible for resistance to penicillins, cephalosporins, and aztreonam, and their presence is also associated with resistance to antibiotics other than β-lactams, i.e., fluoroquinolones or aminoglycosides [2]. For more than twenty years, an increase in the number of resistant strains and infections with ESBL strains has been observed [2]. Widespread use of inexpensive antibiotics such as cephalosporins leads to the spread of ESBL strains in Europe and the USA [3]. Among the ESBL strains, E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae most often cause BSI [2, 4].

Studies by Sakellariou et al. have shown that E.coli BSI is most often of urological origin, whereas K. pneumoniae BSI is associated with surgical site infection (SSI), respiratory tract infection, or unknown infection [5]. Factors increasing the risk of such infections include the presence of invasive devices, especially vascular or indwelling catheters, age, ICU stay, septic shock, stay in a nursing home, and previous antibiotic therapy or inappropriate therapy [4, 6]. Antibiotic therapy with third-generation cephalosporins, β-lactams, and fluoroquinolones is particularly significant in the development of the ESBL phenotype [4]. ESBL infections are associated with increased mortality, costs, and prolonged hospitalization [2]. In the case of ESBL-positive K. pneumoniae, associated with surgical site infection, the risk factors include peritonitis, the use of broad-spectrum cephalosporins, neutropenia, septic shock, and ICU stay [7].

The main purpose of this study was to determine the drug resistance in Enterobacterales isolated from secondary bloodstream infection in surgical patients. In this manuscript, only cases of laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infections (LC-BSIs) were subjected to analysis according to the ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) definitions, in which it is diagnosed when the patient demonstrates at least one of the following symptoms: fever (>38°C), chills, blood pressure drop, blood cultures giving at least one positive result and a pathogenic microorganism is isolated, or two independent trials, up to 48 hours apart, give rise [8]. Additionally, the occurrence of possible clonal epidemics among K. pneumoniae strains was examined.

2. Materials and Methods

This multicenter laboratory-based retrospective study included 997 adult surgery patients (18≤) with LC-BSIs hospitalized in southern Poland (13 hospitals). The patients were hospitalized in 15 surgery units of different types: general, urology and vascular surgery wards, or gynecology and obstetrics wards. The qualifying criterion was to diagnose secondary bloodstream infection, except for central or peripheral venous catheter BSI.

Altogether, 121 Enterobacterales strains were isolated. Identification of microorganisms was performed using the MALDI-TOF Biotyper (Bruker Corporation, the Netherlands) according to standard methods. The isolates had been collected retrospectively in collaboration with KORLAB between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2018 and the Department of Microbiology at the Jagiellonian University Medical College.

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of all isolates was performed according to the current guidelines of the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST, http://www.eucast.org/clinical_breakpoints/; accessed December 2017) by disc diffusion on Müeller–Hinton agar plates. Resistance was determined to six categories of antimicrobial agents: penicillin (also with clavulanic acid and tazobactam), cephalosporins (fourth-generation cefuroxime, ceftazidime, cefotaxime, cefepime, and cefoperazone-sulbactam), carbapenems (ertapenem, imipenem, and meropenem), aminoglycosides (amikacin, gentamicin, and tobramycin), fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin), and sulfamethoxazole with trimethoprim.

ESBL activity was detected with a modified double disk synergy test using a combination of cefotaxime, ceftazidime, cefepime, and aztreonam discs, placed 20 mm apart around a disc containing amoxicillin/clavulanic acid [9].

All isolates with ESBL activity were screened with multiplex PCR for the presence of bla_TEM, bla_SHV, and bla_OXAβ-lactamase genes and for variants of bla_CTX-Mβ-lactamase genes (group including bla_CTX-M-1, bla_CTX-M-3, and bla_CTX-M-15, group 2 including bla_CTX-M-2, and group 9 including bla_CTX-M-9 and bla_CTX-M-14) using previously published primers [10]. Due to the largest number of ESBLs among Klebsiella spp. being Klebsiella pneumoniae strains (n = 27), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was performed to check for a clonal epidemic. Our previous experiments showed that Klebsiella strains isolated in Polish departments often belong to one clone. PFGE was used to determine the possible horizontal transfer of K. pneumoniae strains among patients from the same wards. Genomic DNA was digested with 10 U XbaI (EURx, Gdańsk, Poland). The resulting DNA fingerprinting was obtained using the CHEF III PFGE system (BioRad, Warsaw, Poland) in 0.5 Tris-borate-EDTA buffer at 14°C at 6 V for 22 h with a ramped pulse time of 2–35 s. The GelCompar (Applied Maths) was used for cluster analysis using the Dice coefficient and the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean.

3. Results

The median age (quartiles Q1 and Q3) was 67 years (59, 76), and 63 (52.0%) patients were women. Most patients (47 persons, 38.8%) were hospitalized in general surgery wards. In the range of less than 59 years, a higher number of cases among women were observed compared to men (39.6% and 13.7%, respectively); while with age, there is an increase in the number of cases among men (in the range of over 70 years: men 51.7%, women 26.9%).

The prevalence of Enterobacterales in secondary BSI was 12.1%; the most common strain was E. coli (n = 74, 61.2%) and Klebsiella spp. (33 patients, 27.2%), regardless of the gender or age group (Table 1). In the genus Klebsiella, 27 Klebsiella pneumoniae, 5 Klebsiella oxytoca, and 1 Klebsiella mobilis strains were identified. An inconsiderable percentage of other species of Enterobacterales bacilli was 11.5%. In the group designated “others,” 10 strains were Proteus mirabilis, 3 Enterobacter cloacae, and 1 Citrobacter freundii.

The highest drug resistance was reported with regard to ampicillin in association with sulbactam, reaching 100% (Table 2). High resistance also involved fluoroquinolones (48–73%) and most cephalosporins (29–50%). Only 1 (0.8%) strain was fully sensitive, but 37 strains (30.6%) were resistant to 5 or more antimicrobial categories studied (Table 2). The studied strains demonstrated almost full sensitivity only to carbapenems (nearly 100% sensitivity), and two strains (E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae) were observed to be resistant to selected carbapenems.

The prevalence of ESBL strains was 37.2% (n = 45). Most ESBL-positive strains belonged to the genus Klebsiella (n = 22; 66.7%) and were especially present in general surgery wards (n = 175; 1.5%). Among E. coli, although they constitute the majority of the Enterobacterales strains isolated, ESBL strains were about ¼ (Table 3).

Among the ESBL (n = 45) strains, 12 strains (26.7%) had the bla_SHV gene (10 Klebsiella and 2 others), 11 strains (24.4%) had bla_TEM (6 Klebsiella, 3 others, and 2 E. coli), 14 strains (31.1%) had bla_OXA (6 E. coli, 6 Klebsiella, and 2 others), and 45 strains (100%) had bla_CTX-M (Table 3).

The most common were bla_CTX-M genes belonging to group 1 (including bla_CTX-M-1, bla_CTX-M-3, and bla_CTX-M-15) up to 34 strains (75.5%), then variants of bla_CTX-M group 9 (including bla_CTX-M-9 and bla_CTX-M-14) in 4 strains (8.9%), and group 2 (including bla_CTX-M-2) in one strain (2.2%). Seven of the bla_CTX-M genes belonged to groups other than those tested.

The result of PFGE, among the studied Klebsiella pneumoniae strains, showed that only 4 strains that have been derived from the same ward of general surgery belonged to one clone. Other strains varied widely (Figure 1).

4. Discussion

Enterobacterales infections are common in surgical wards, but the presented data show that their prevalence depends significantly on the type of surgery procedures. In the analyzed population, they were most often identified in general surgery and after urological procedures, while in other populations, this type of etiology was rare.

According to Kolpa et al., the prevalence of Enterobacteriaceae in HAIs in patients after neurosurgical procedures was 25.8%, but mainly related to BSI cases, where prevalence was as high as 29.8% [11]. Similar values (33%) were obtained in pediatric cardiac surgery [12]. And as expected, completely different results were obtained in studies on infections in patients after urological procedures, where Enterobacteriaceae in BSI constituted 67.9%. The strains from LC-BSI showed significant drug resistance. They were highly susceptible only to ciprofloxacin, piperacillin-tazobactam (90%), meropenem, and gentamicin (100%) [13].

According to Melzer et al., urinary catheters increase the risk of severe bacteremia and should be used only when there is a clinical indication [14]. Research results by Lillie et al. confirm that one of the main reasons for the increase in BSI is the use of urinary catheters, often unnecessary [15]. Probably, the best way to reduce the number of BSI among urological patients is to reduce the indwelling catheters utilization and shortening the urinary catheter use [16].

To improve the effectiveness of empirical treatment in surgical departments, we need to know the epidemiology of both surgical site infection and BSI secondary to SSI, including the prevalence of their microbial etiological agents and antibiotic resistance profiles. Our results indicate an alarmingly high level of drug resistance in Enterobacterales strains associated with secondary BSIs in surgery patients in southern Poland. This situation may affect the risk of therapeutic failures in empirical therapy. Based on presented data in studied population, effective empirical therapy is possible only with cefoperazone-sulbactam or piperacillin-tazobactam in combination with aminoglycosides or the use of carbapenems, which is definitely unfavorable because it carries a high risk of increasing resistance to carbapenems among Enterobacterales which is already a big problem in other European countries such as Romania, Greece, and Italy [17]. In Poland, among E. coli and K. pneumoniae strains, resistance to aminopenicillins, third-generation cephalosporins, and fluoroquinolones is still a bigger problem, which does not mean that we should not be afraid of the appearance of carbapenem-resistant strains [18]. Fortunately, resistance to carbapenems in Enterobacterales was not confirmed in our studies, as only one strain was resistant to imipenem. However, the application of one of the antibiotics from the group of β-lactams, carbapenems, aminoglycosides, or fluoroquinolones may lead to coselection resistance to several groups of antibiotics. This is an indication for the need to perform microbiological tests concurrently with targeted therapy and to conduct precise microbiological surveillance. Unfortunately, in Polish hospitals, microbiological testing is underutilized and antibiotic consumption is one of the highest in Europe [19]. On the other hand, measures are required to implement appropriate infection prevention and control procedures.

Despite the fact that no mechanisms of carbapenem resistance have been found in our study, we still observe a high level of ESBL-positive strains, especially in K. pneumoniae. This observation is consistent with reports from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program, which indicate a continuous and faster increase in the share of ESBL-positive K. pneumoniae and E. coli strains in various types of infections in hospitals in the US [20]. In our 2011–2013 research, the presence of ESBL was only slightly lower at 57% KP and 21.4% EC [21]. In addition, ESBL strains isolated from newborns were resistant to aminoglycosides and SXT as here. Molecular characterization of the 45 ESBL-producing isolates showed that all (100%) isolates were producing bla_CTX-M-type ESBLs, which represented most of all by groups bla_CTX-M-1, bla_CTX-M-3, and bla_CTX-M-15 (75.5%), which is consistent with our other studies about ESBL strains in southern Poland [21, 22].

Molecular studies suggest that both mechanisms (clonal spread and plasmid transfer) are important since ESBL-positive strains have a larger share of the outbreak than others. The abundance of ESBL-positive strains from materials (wound, blood) from surgical patients may also be due to the aggressive broad-spectrum antibiotic policy. We should not ignore the local prevalence of ESBL when drug delivery algorithms are constructed.

Based on previous experience concerning research in Polish hospitals, we know that clonal spread more often affects Klebsiella pneumoniae strains than E. coli; hence, we have now checked whether the high ESBL share among this species is not associated with clonal outbreak [21, 23]. However, the diversity of Klebsiella strains in PFGE was relatively high—only 4 strains belonged to one clone. This fact was different from our previous experience; probably, the cases of infection in this study were not associated with the horizontal transfer.

The high prevalence of ESBLs among Enterobacterales in hospital wards cannot be unambiguously associated with a high percentage of ESBLs in the general population, and studies conducted by Ny et al. among volunteers in six European countries, including Poland, showed a prevalence of 8% in the case of E. coli ESBL and 0% in K. pneumoniae ESBL among polish carriers in Silesian Voivodeship [24].

In the light of the data presented, rapid implementation of targeted treatment, especially based on sensitive and quick diagnostic tests, is of particular importance for successful infection treatment. In addition to species identification, more and more commercially available kits for identifying bacteria from blood by molecular methods are able to detect the most popular resistance mechanisms, e.g., KPC, NDM, bla_OXA-48, and others. In Poland, there are currently no clear recommendations on how to effectively implement this type of procedure, and for many hospitals and laboratories, the costs of modern tests may also be a barrier [25]. Our study has a few limitations. It is generally assumed that E. coli and K. pneumoniae BSI behave similarly, since such a combination was commonly adopted in the literature. Clinical data regarding the hospitalization period were available, and we could analyze only the in-hospital outcome. Previous history of hospitalization was unknown, and we did not know if the patient had previously used antibiotics or had an underlying disease.

Data Availability

The data used to support the findings of this study are available from the Department of Microbiology of the Jagiellonian University Medical College upon request (Agnieszka Chmielarczyk, [email protected] and Jadwiga Wojkowska-Mach, [email protected]). Data on drug resistance of strains are also available in the KORLAB laboratory (Monika Pomorska-Wesołowska [email protected]).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Authors’ Contributions

ACh and JWM have conceptualised and designed the study; MP-W collected the data; DR and MK performed the phenotypic and genotypic analyses; ACh and JWM analyzed and interpreted the data; MK, ACh, and JWM wrote the manuscript; Ach and JWM reviewed and revised it and gave the final approval of the version to be published.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by a grant from the Jagiellonian University Medical School (N41/DBS/000053).

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