Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates from Spanish Children: Occurrence in Faecal Samples, Antimicrobial Resistance, Virulence, and Molecular Typing.

ABSTRACT: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major opportunistic human pathogen, responsible for nosocomial infections and infections in patients with impaired immune systems. Little data exist about the faecal colonisation by P. aeruginosa isolates in healthy humans. The occurrence, antimicrobial resistance phenotype, virulence genotype, and genetic lineages of P. aeruginosa from faecal samples of children from two different Spanish regions were characterised. Seventy-two P. aeruginosa were isolated from 1,443 faecal samples. Low antimicrobial resistance levels were detected: ceftazidime (8%), cefepime (7%), aztreonam (7%), gentamicin (3%), ciprofloxacin (1%), and imipenem (1%); susceptibility to meropenem, amikacin, tobramycin, levofloxacin, and colistin. Four multidrug-resist

SUBMITTER: Ruiz-Roldan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6016177 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature