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. 2013 Mar;54(1):24-8.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection among cystic fibrosis and ICU patients in the referral children medical hospital in Tehran, Iran

Z Movahedi  1 , B Pourakbari  2 , S Mahmoudi  2 , F Sabouni  3 , M T Ashtiani Haghi  4 , R Hosseinpour Sadeghi  2 , S Mamishi  4
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection among cystic fibrosis and ICU patients in the referral children medical hospital in Tehran, Iran

Z Movahedi et al. J Prev Med Hyg. 2013 Mar.

Abstract

Introduction: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the important causes of hospital-acquired infections in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and considered as a major determinant of morbidity and mortality in patients affected by cystic fibrosis (CF). The aim of this study was to investigate clonal diversity among randomly picked P. aeruginosa isolates of CF and the other hospitalized patients in ICU.

Methods: Cultivation, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of P. aeruginosa isolates were performed using standard techniques. The genetic similarity of the strains was investigated by amplification of the Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus-polymerase chain reaction (ERIC-PCR) sequence.

Results and discussion: Among 49 isolates, sixteen were isolated from 11 patients affected by CF and 33 came from an epidemiological investigation of 25 P. aeruginosa infected patients of ICU. Five clusters were generated for all isolates analyzed through ERIC-PCR genotyping. Two major clusters (B and C) were discovered in P. aeruginosa isolates of ICU and CF patients during the whole period of this study. Fifteen unique antibiogram patterns obtained from all isolates and multi-resistant P. aeruginosa (MRPA) were identified in 23 isolates (47%). MRPA isolates were detected in all clusters (except A) while pan-resistant isolates were recovered only in cluster C. The high prevalence of related or identical isolates in CF and non-CF patients can be due to transmission of particular dominant clones in ICU ward. Therefore, enhanced infection-control may become necessary to prevent further spread of clonal strains.

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Dendrogram of genotype analysis derived from 49 P. aeruginosa isolates. The scale at the top represents the genetic distance between the isolates..
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Distribution of different clusters during 2010.
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