Genotypic characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19F in Malaysia

Jeevajothi Nathan J 1 , Mohd Desa MN 2 , Thong KL 3 , Clarke SC 4 , Masri SN 5 , Md Yasin R 6 Show all authors , Mohd Taib N 7

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. Electronic address: jjayakayatri@yahoo.com
  • 2 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. Electronic address: mnasir@upm.edu.my
  • 3 Division of Microbiology, Institute of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Biomedical Science and Molecular Typing Laboratory, Institute of Graduate Studies, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 4 Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK; NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Southampton, UK; Institute of Life Sciences, University of Southampton, UK; Public Health England, Southampton, UK
  • 5 Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. Electronic address: sitinorbaya@upm.edu.my
  • 6 Specialized Diagnostic Centre, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 7 Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. Electronic address: niazlin@upm.edu.my
Infect Genet Evol, 2014 Jan;21:391-4.
PMID: 24342879 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.11.026

Abstract

Streptococcus pneumoniae is an epidemiologically important bacterial pathogen. Recently, we reported the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of a limited collection of pneumococcal isolates in Malaysia with a high prevalence of erythromycin resistant strains. In the present study, 55 of the pneumococcal isolates of serotype 19F were further analysed by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). The generated genotypic patterns were then correlated with the antibiograms previously reported. Forty-seven different PFGE profiles (PTs) were obtained, showing that the isolates were genetically diverse. MLST identified 16 sequence types (STs) with ST-236 being predominant (58.2%), followed by ST-81 (10.3%). Among the ST-236 isolates, 22 were erythromycin resistant S. pneumoniae (ERSP) and 15 were trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) resistant, while among ST-81, four isolates were ERSP and two were TMP/SMX resistant. The high prevalence of erythromycin resistant serotype 19F isolates of ST-236 in this study has also been reported in other North and South East Asian countries.

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