TY - JOUR
T1 - Small and rough colony Pseudomonas aeruginosa with elevated biofilm formation ability isolated in hospitalized patients
AU - Ikeno, Takako
AU - Fukuda, Kazumasa
AU - Ogawa, Midori
AU - Honda, Masahisa
AU - Tanabe, Tadao
AU - Taniguchi, Hatsumi
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a key pathogen of nosocomial infection, and causes persistent infection in patients with specific diseases like cystic fibrosis (CF). It has been reported that patients affected with CF discharge, at a high frequency, small colony variants with high adherence ability. In routine laboratory testing, we found atypical small and rough type (SR) colony variants of P. aeruginosa. The SRs and the counterpart wild type (WT) colonies showed similar biochemical features, antimicrobial susceptibilities, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiles, serotypes, and twitching motilities. The biofilm formation abilities of all the SR colonies, however, were extremely elevated as compared to those of the counterpart WT colonies. The frequency of SR-positive patients was 3.1% of the P. aeruginosa-positive inpatients (5/160), and that of the SR isolates was 0.6% of the P. aeruginosa strains (6/970) isolated in our laboratory over a period of 6 months. The SR-positive patients did not have any common disease or particular antibiotics treatment. The PFGE profiles showed that the SRs and the counterpart WTs were identical to each other, and also that three of the five SR/WT pairs were clonally similar. The three pairs were recovered from the feces, urine, and endotracheal secretion, respectively, of three patients hospitalized in two distinct wards. The results suggest that P. aeruginosa spontaneously produced highly adherent SR colonies in hospitalized patients, and these colonies may tend to spread in a hospital.
AB - Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a key pathogen of nosocomial infection, and causes persistent infection in patients with specific diseases like cystic fibrosis (CF). It has been reported that patients affected with CF discharge, at a high frequency, small colony variants with high adherence ability. In routine laboratory testing, we found atypical small and rough type (SR) colony variants of P. aeruginosa. The SRs and the counterpart wild type (WT) colonies showed similar biochemical features, antimicrobial susceptibilities, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiles, serotypes, and twitching motilities. The biofilm formation abilities of all the SR colonies, however, were extremely elevated as compared to those of the counterpart WT colonies. The frequency of SR-positive patients was 3.1% of the P. aeruginosa-positive inpatients (5/160), and that of the SR isolates was 0.6% of the P. aeruginosa strains (6/970) isolated in our laboratory over a period of 6 months. The SR-positive patients did not have any common disease or particular antibiotics treatment. The PFGE profiles showed that the SRs and the counterpart WTs were identical to each other, and also that three of the five SR/WT pairs were clonally similar. The three pairs were recovered from the feces, urine, and endotracheal secretion, respectively, of three patients hospitalized in two distinct wards. The results suggest that P. aeruginosa spontaneously produced highly adherent SR colonies in hospitalized patients, and these colonies may tend to spread in a hospital.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2007.tb03989.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2007.tb03989.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 17951982
AN - SCOPUS:35448939669
VL - 51
SP - 929
EP - 938
JO - Microbiology and Immunology
JF - Microbiology and Immunology
SN - 0385-5600
IS - 10
ER -