Antibiotic Sensitivity Profiles of Enterococcus faecalis and an Emerging Planomicrobium Species in Bloodstream Infections

Authors

  • Munaff J. Abd Al-Abbas Author

Keywords:

Enterococcus faecalis, Planomicrobium mcmeekinii, 16SrDNA and sequencing.

Abstract

During nucleotide sequences of 16SrDNA gene, Enterococcus faecalis was predominant in 322 samples; 11 
isolates (100%) were from outpatients' vaginal swabs and 3 isolates (75%) from inpatients' blood samples. The 
three isolates from the blood showed two frame shift mutations "Deletion" at sequence positions 21 and 1076 bp 
to be 100% similar with type strain OG1RF. The isolates totally showed no resistance to gentamycin, streptomycin 
and erythromycin whereas, there was high resistance to amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (71.4%), methicillin and 
vancomycin (92.8%, for each). All isolates from the blood were completely resistant to penicillin and ampicillin. 
The study also detected Planomicrobium mcmeekinii from an inpatients' blood case (containing Gene or Point 
mutation type Transversion at position 358 bp resulting to 99% sequence identity to ATCC 700539) as first 
reporting and revealing it to be a new subspecies or species. 

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Published

2013-01-14

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): volume 4 issue 1 2013

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Antibiotic Sensitivity Profiles of Enterococcus faecalis and an Emerging Planomicrobium Species in Bloodstream Infections . (2013). International Journal of Medical Advances and Discoveries, 4(1), 15-23. https://kevinpage.org/index.php/IJMAD/article/view/1344