Combination of Modified Carbapenem Inactivation Method (mCIM) and EDTA-CIM (eCIM) for Phenotypic Detection of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae

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Journal BMC Microbiol

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2020 Oct 18

PMID 33069233

Citations 22

Authors

Ya-Min Tsai

Shining Wang

Hui-Chuan Chiu

Cheng-Yen Kao

Li-Li Wen

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Abstract

Background: Carbapenemase-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) cause many serious infections resulting in increasing treatment cost, prolonged hospitalization, and mortality rate. Reduced expression and/or mutations of porins and the presence of carbapenemase promote Enterobacteriaceae survival under carbapenem treatments. Development of accurate methods for the detection of antimicrobial resistance is required not only for therapy but also to monitor the spread of resistant bacteria or resistance genes throughout the hospital and community. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the phenotypic methods, Modified Hodge test (MHT), modified carbapenem inactivation method (mCIM), and EDTA-CIM (eCIM) for the detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE).

Results: The results showed that mCIM had a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 100%, whereas the MHT had a sensitivity of 84.8% and a specificity of 97.8% for the 195 CRE isolates tested (105 CPE and 90 non-CPE isolates). The sensitivity of the mCIM/eCIM to detect metallo-carbapenemases in this study was 89.3% and the specificity was 98.7% as compared to the genotypic PCR detection.

Conclusions: These findings indicate that the mCIM combined with eCIM is useful for detecting and distinguishing different types of carbapenemase in Enterobacteriaceae.

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