ABSTRACT
En este trabajo se investigó la presencia de determinantes característicos de plásmidos de virulencia en dos aislamientos clínicos de Salmonella Infantis portadores de plásmidos de multirresistencia. Además, se estudió la capacidad de invasión y proliferación en células eucariotas no fagocíticas. Ninguno de los aislamientos de S. Infantis mostró los determinantes genéticos que caracterizan a los plásmidos de virulencia para este género (operón spv). Los ensayos de invasión sobre líneas celulares eucariotas mostraron que los aislamientos de S. Infantis presentan una capacidad de invasión disminuida pero persisten y proliferan en el citoplasma, independientemente de utilizar una línea celular permisiva (HeLa) o no permisiva (NRK) para tal fin. Finalmente, no se observaron indicios microscópicos que podrían hacer sospechar un efecto bactericida de estas líneas celulares sobre los aislamientos estudiados.
Two multidrug-resistant Salmonella Infantis isolates behave like hypo-invasive strains but have high intracellular proliferation. In this work, plasmid-encoded virulence factors in two Salmonella Infantis isolates carrying multiresistance plasmids were investigated. In addition, their invasion and proliferative ability in non-phagocytic cells was studied. None of them showed the typical determinants of virulence plasmids (spv operon). The invasion assays of S. Infantis isolates on eukaryotic cells showed a decreased ability to Invade but they remained and proliferated In the cytoplasm regardless of having used a permissive (HeLa) or non-permissive (NRK) cell line. Finally, there was no microscopic evidence suggesting a bactericidal effect of these eukaryotic cell lines on the Isolates tested.
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Animals , Humans , Rats , Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial/genetics , Eukaryotic Cells/microbiology , R Factors/physiology , Salmonella/pathogenicity , Blood/microbiology , Cell Division , Cell Line/microbiology , Cross Infection/microbiology , Feces/microbiology , Genes, Bacterial , Genetic Markers , HeLa Cells/microbiology , Kidney/cytology , R Factors/genetics , R Factors/isolation & purification , Salmonella Infections/microbiology , Salmonella/drug effects , Salmonella/genetics , Salmonella/isolation & purification , Virulence/geneticsABSTRACT
Six Salmonella Agona strains from an outbreak of 15 days duration which occurred in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were analyzed. The outbreak involved six infants (mean age, 24 days; mean body weight, 1612 g), all of them with severe clinical signs and symptoms. Two of them had surgical implications, two were preterm and two had respiratory distress at birth. The Salmonella strains were resistant to nine antimicrobial agents (ampicillin, cephalotin, cefriaxone, gentamicin, amykacin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, chloramphenicol, and tetracyclin). Analysis of the plasmid pattern of the wild strains and of the transconjugants confirmed that these were identical strains