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Clinically significant carbapenemases: an update

Walsh, Timothy Rutland ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4315-4096 2008. Clinically significant carbapenemases: an update. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases 21 (4) , pp. 367-371. 10.1097/QCO.0b013e328303670b

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Abstract

Purpose of review: To provide a brief synopsis of studies which have extended our understanding of carbapenem resistance in clinical isolates in terms of epidemiology, mechanism of action and genetic factors affecting their carriage and spread. Recent findings: Studies published in the last 18 months continue to confirm that VIM-2 is the dominant metallo-β-lactamase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and that it has now moved into the cystic fibrosis P. aeruginosa population. Increased incidences of KPC and Guiana extended-spectrum serine carbapenemase would indicate that these are likely to dominate in Enterobacteriaceae and that KPC-2 has now been isolated from P. aeruginosa. Class D carbapenemases still appear to be confined to Acinetobacter baumannii and, interestingly, it has been proposed that OXA-23 was transferred from the nonpathogenic Acinetobacter radioresistens. Crystal structures of KPC-2, GES-1 and OXA-24 have been reported to enhance our understanding of why these clinically important enzymes can bind and hydrolyse carbapenems, whereas others cannot. Therapeutic options continue to be limited and although tigecycline shows activity against carbapenemase-positive Enterobacteriaceae, antibiotic combinations are required for carbapenemase-positive Acinetobacter and P. aeruginosa. Summary: Carbapenem resistance continues to increase both in number and into new species/strain types, but our therapeutic options remain woefully inadequate - a dilemma that will not improve in the foreseeable future.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI)
Subjects: R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISSN: 0951-7375
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2022 08:36
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/28940

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