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  1. Fulltext Chromogenic agar medium for rapid detection of extended-spectrum β-lactamases and Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases producing bacteria from human immunodeficiency virus patients
    Rameshkumar MR, Vignesh R, Swathirajan CR, Balakrishnan P, Arunagirinathan N
    J Res Med Sci, 2015 Dec;20(12):1219-20.
    PMID: 26958061 DOI: 10.4103/1735-1995.172994
  2. Fulltext Do the clonally different Escherichia coli isolates causing different infections in a HIV positive patient affect the selection of antibiotics for their treatment?
    Rameshkumar MR, Arunagirinathan N, Swathirajan CR, Vignesh R, Balakrishnan P, Solomon SS
    Indian J Med Res, 2018 09;148(3):341-344.
    PMID: 30425226 DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_730_17
  3. Fulltext Ertapenem for multiple β-lactamases producing Gram-negative bacteria causing urinary tract infections in HIV patients
    Kumar MRR, Arunagirinathan N, Vignesh R, Balakrishnan P, Solomon S, Sunil SS
    J Res Med Sci, 2017;22:69.
    PMID: 28616056 DOI: 10.4103/jrms.JRMS_884_16
  4. Fulltext Detection of blaNDM-1 and blaNDM-5 genes among Gram-negative bacteria isolated from human immunodeficiency virus patients in South India
    Rameshkumar MR, Arunagirinathan N, Indu P, Swathirajan CR, Solomon SS, Vignesh R, et al.
    J Res Med Sci, 2018;23:112.
    PMID: 30774691 DOI: 10.4103/jrms.JRMS_627_18
  5. Dissemination of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Drug Resistance Genes Associated with Class 1 and Class 2 Integrons Among Gram-Negative Bacteria from HIV Patients in South India
    Ramesh Kumar MR, Arunagirinathan N, Srivani S, Dhanasezhian A, Vijaykanth N, Manikandan N, et al.
    Microb Drug Resist, 2017 Jul;23(5):602-608.
    PMID: 27854149 DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2016.0034
    The antibiotic, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX), is generally used for prophylaxis in HIV individuals to protect them from Pneumocystis jiroveci infection. Long-term use of TMP-SMX develops drug resistance among bacteria in HIV patients. The study was aimed to detect the TMP-SMX resistance genes among gram-negative bacteria from HIV patients. TMP-SMX-resistant isolates were detected by the Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method. While TMP resistance genes such as dfrA1, dfrA5, dfrA7, and dfrA17 and SMX resistance genes such as sul1 and sul2 were detected by multiplex PCR, class 1 and class 2 integrons were detected by standard monoplex PCR. Of the 151 TMP-SMX-resistant bacterial isolates, 3 were positive for sul1 alone, 48 for sul2 alone, 11 for dfrA7 alone, 21 for sul1 and sul2, 1 for sul1 and dfrA7, 23 for sul2 and dfrA7, 2 for sul2 and dfrA5, 41 for sul1, sul2, and dfrA7, and 1 for sul2, dfrA5, and dfrA7. Of 60 TMP-SMX-resistant isolates positive for integrons, 44 had class 1 and 16 had class 2 integrons. It was found that the prevalence of sul genes (n = 202; p n = 80; p n = 132; p 
  6. Occurrence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase, AmpC, and carbapenemase-producing genes in gram-negative bacterial isolates from human immunodeficiency virus infected patients
    Rameshkumar MR, Arunagirinathan N, Senthamilselvan B, Swathirajan CR, Solomon SS, Vignesh R, et al.
    J Infect Public Health, 2021 Nov 10.
    PMID: 34810142 DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2021.11.008
    BACKGROUND: Progressive decline of immune response in HIV patients makes them susceptible to frequent bacterial infections. High usage of antibiotics influences the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria and worsens the clinical outcomes. In this study, the occurrence of drug-resistant genes in Gram-negative bacterial isolates from HIV patients in South India was analyzed.

    METHODS: A total of 173 Gram-negative bacterial (GNB) isolates from HIV patients were screened for antibiotic susceptibility profile using the Kirby-Bauer diskdiffusion method. Positivity of drug-resistant genes was analyzed using polymerase chain reaction method.

    RESULTS: In this study, 72.8% of bacterial isolates were obtained from urine specimens, and Escherichia coli (47.4%) was the predominantly isolated bacterium. Overall, 87.3% and 83.2% of GNB were resistant to 3rd generation cephalosporin antibiotics such as cefotaxime and ceftazidime, respectively, 56.6% were resistant to cephamycin (cefoxitin) and 43% to carbapenem (imipenem) antibiotics. Extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) production was noted among 79.5% of GNB isolates, followed by AmpC (57.1%) and Metallo β-lactamases (37.3%). Molecular analysis revealed that ESBL genes such as blaTEM (94.1%), blaCTX-M (89.2%), and blaSHV (24.2%) were detected at higher levels among GNB isolates. Carbapenemase-producing genes such as blaOXA-48 (20%), blaOXA-23 (2.6%), and both blaOXA-23 and blaOXA-51 like genes (2.6%) and AmpC producing genes such as blaCIT (26.7%), blaDHA (3.6%), and blaACC (1.8%) were detected at low-level.

    CONCLUSIONS: This study concludes that ESBL producing genes are detected at high level among gram-negative bacterial isolates from HIV patients in South India.

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