Poster Presentation 20th Lancefield International Symposium on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases 2017

Antimicrobial susceptibility and common virulence genotype of Streptoccocus suis serotype 2 isolate from patient in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam (#154)

Chieu Tran 1 , Ha Huynh 1 , Tong Nguyen 1 , Hoa Ngo 1
  1. OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT-CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE, 5, HCMC, Viet Nam

We characterized antimicrobial susceptibility profile and common virulence genes of S.suis isolated from blood or CSF samples of patients in Cambodia, Laos and Southern Viet Nam. A total of 13 patients from Cambodia, 13 from Laos and 52 from Southern Vietnam were identified with the mean age of 58.8 years (67.0% female), 46.3 years (23.3% female) and 48.6 years (20.0% female), respectively. All isolates were serotype 2. Isolates from Cambodia and Vietnam belonged to ST1 while 46% of Laos isolates belonged to ST104. Resistance to at least three drug classes macrolides, clindamycin and tetracyclin was detected in 30.8%, 87.5% and 92.9% of isolates from these three countries, in previous order. Tetracyclin resistance was correlated with tetM (100.0%, 12.5%, 94,7%) and tetO (16.0%, 87.5%, 22.8%) in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam isolates, respectively while TetL was only found in 7.0% of Viet Nam isolates. The macrolide-resistant gene ermB was present in 100.0%, 10.5% and 25.0% in isolates from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Only genes sly was found in ST104 isolates while epf were found in 57.9%, 77.0% and 98.0% in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. S.suis caused meningitis and sepsis in human in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam, were associated with complex multi-antibiotic resistance, but still susceptible to ceftrizone and penicillin, two currently used antibiotics for human S. suis infection treatment.