Nozomi Tojo

ABSTRACT

IMP-type metallo-β-lactamase enzymes have been reported in different geographical areas and in various Gram-negative bacteria. However, the risk factors and epidemiology pertaining to IMP-type metallo-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacter cloacae (IMP-producing E. cloacae) have not been systematically evaluated. We conducted a retrospective, matched case-control study of patients from whom IMP-producingE. cloacae isolates were obtained, in addition to performing thorough molecular analyses of the clinically obtained IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates. Unique cases with IMP-producing E. cloacae isolation were included. Patients with IMP-producing E. cloacae were matched to uninfected controls at a ratio of 1 to 3. Fifteen IMP-producing E. cloacae cases were identified, with five of the isolates being obtained from blood, and they were matched to 45 uninfected controls. All (100%) patients from whom IMP-producing E. cloacaeisolates were obtained had indwelling devices at the time of isolation, compared with one (2.2%) uninfected control. Independent predictors for isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae were identified as cephalosporin exposure and invasive procedures within 3 months. Although in-hospital mortality rates were similar between cases and controls (14.3% versus 13.3%), the in-hospital mortality of patients with IMP-producing E. cloacae-caused bacteremia was significantly higher (40%) than the rate in controls. IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates were frequently positive for other resistance determinants. The MICs of meropenem and imipenem were not elevated; 10 (67%) and 12 (80%) of the 15 IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates had a MIC of ≤1 μg/ml. A phylogenetic tree showed a close relationship among the IMP-producing E. cloacae samples. Indwelling devices, exposure to cephalosporin, and a history of invasive procedures were associated with isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae. Screening for carbapenemase production is important in order to apply appropriate clinical management and infection control measures.

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INTRODUCTION

The emergence of extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae has been observed globally in the health care-associated setting and in the community (1). The importance of carbapenem as a treatment option for ESBL-producing organisms, as well as chromosomal cephalosporinase-producing organisms, has been increasing (1). The recent spread of carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria is a significant public health problem. Class A enzymes, represented by Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-type enzymes, and acquired class B metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) are disseminated among bacteria internationally (2). The MBLs include various clinically and epidemiologically important types, such as VIM, NDM, and IMP types (3). IMP-type enzymes were first detected in Japan in the late 1980s (4). Since this time, IMP-type enzymes have been reported from different geographical areas, including Japan, in various Gram-negative bacteria (mostly in Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter spp., and Serratia marcescens) (3,–6). IMP-type enzymes have broad substrate specificity that includes cephalosporins and carbapenems (7, 8).

Since 2011, metallo-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacter cloacae isolates have been obtained from multiple patients at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo, Japan (9). E. cloacae is a common nosocomial pathogen. E. cloacae is ubiquitous in the hospital environment and can survive on skin and dry surfaces (10). E. cloacae is known to possess inducible ampC chromosomal β-lactamase and may also carry plasmid-mediated ESBLs (11). Carbapenemase (e.g., IMP, VIM, KPC, and NDM)-producing E. cloacaeisolates have been reported (2, 3, 9, 12). However, to the best of our knowledge, the risk factors, epidemiology, and clinical effects pertaining to IMP-type MBL-producing E. cloacae have not been systematically evaluated, in contrast to other carbapenemase-producing pathogens, such as KPC producers (13, 14).

Therefore, we conducted a case-control study of patients from whom IMP-type metallo-β-lactamase-producing E. cloacae (IMP-producing E. cloacae) isolates were obtained, in addition to thorough molecular analyses of the clinically obtained IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates.

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MATERIALS AND METHODS

Study setting and design.

A retrospective matched case-control investigation of risk factors and outcomes was conducted at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM). NCGM has more than 800 inpatient beds and serves as a tertiary referral hospital for metropolitan Tokyo. Institutional review boards at the NCGM approved the study before its initiation.

Patients and variables.

Patients from whom clinical isolates of IMP-producing E. cloacae were obtained from 1 October 2011 to 31 December 2012 were matched in a 1-to-3 ratio to uninfected controls who did not have E. cloacae isolated during the study period (15). The matching parameters for uninfected controls included (i) the hospital unit where the patient was being treated when the IMP-producing E. cloacae isolate was recovered, (ii) the calendar year and month, and (iii) the time at risk, i.e., time from admission to culture for patients with IMP-producing E. cloacae. For uninfected controls, the total duration of the hospital stay was considered to be the time at risk, and it had to be at least as long as the time at risk of the matched IMP-producing E. cloacae case. Once an eligible pool of controls was identified for each case, controls were randomly selected using the randomization function in Excel (Microsoft). For patients who had more than one strain of IMP-producing E. cloacae isolated during the study period, only the first episode was analyzed for the purpose of epidemiological analyses (i.e., the epidemiological part of the study included only unique patient episodes). Surveillance stool cultures were not routinely conducted at the NCGM during the study period.

The parameters retrieved from patient records included the following: (i) demographics; (ii) background conditions and comorbid conditions (including Charlson scores [16]); (iii) recent health care-associated exposure, such as a stay in a health care facility, an invasive procedure, and the presence of an indwelling device; (iv) the severity of underlying disease, including the McCabe score (17); (v) recent (within 3 months) exposure to antimicrobials prior to isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae (or prior to admission for controls); and (vi) outcome, including in-hospital and 90-day mortality, length of hospital stay, deterioration in functional status (defined as deterioration from admission to discharge in at least one activity of daily living according to the Katz criteria [18]), and discharge to a long-term facility after being admitted from home. Infectious clinical syndromes in patients from whom IMP-producing E. cloacae was isolated were determined according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definitions (19) and, when present, according to consultation notes from the infectious diseases consult service. IMP-producing E. cloacaeisolates were considered to be colonizers if patients did not have any sign of infection based on the above-described criteria and in cases of asymptomatic bacteriuria.

Antimicrobial susceptibility, detection of IMP-type metallo-β-lactamases, and bacterial strains.

Bacteria were identified to the species level, and susceptibilities to predefined antimicrobials were determined by using an automated broth microdilution system (MicroScan WalkAway; Siemens AG, Germany) and in accordance with Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) criteria (document M100–S19) (20). Clinical isolates of E. cloacae that were resistant to one or multiple agents in the extended-spectrum cephalosporin class and/or that demonstrated elevated MICs (>1 μg/ml) to imipenem and/or meropenem were screened for ESBL, MBL, and AmpC production using the Cica-Beta-Test I with HMRZ-86 (Kanto Chemical, Tokyo, Japan) (21). Subsequently, the isolates deemed positive for MBL production by the Cica-Beta-Test I were tested for IMP-type-metallo-β-lactamase production by using an immunochromatographic assay kit (Mizuho Medy Co., Saga, Japan) (22). The broth microdilution method was also performed manually according to the guidelines of the CLSI (document M100–S22) to determine the susceptibility of isolates included in the study (23). A total of 17 isolates (from 15 patients) were included in the molecular analyses. In addition, 2 E. cloacae isolates from NCGM in 2007 and 2 isolates of IMP-producing E. cloacaefrom other facilities in Japan were included in the phylogenetic analyses.

Detection of antibiotic resistance genes.

The blaIMP and aac(6′)-Iae genes were amplified using PCR primers as described previously (24). All of the PCR products were sequenced using an ABI Prism 3130 sequencer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA). The class 1 integron was amplified using the PCR primer set 5′CS and 3′CS (24). All of the PCR products were sequenced to identify the contents of the genes (25).

Multilocus sequence typing.

Multilocus sequence typing was performed as described elsewhere (26). To analyze the clonality of the strains/isolates, phylogenetic analysis using the concatenated sequence comprising the loci was performed (26).

Statistical analysis.

All analyses were performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 20 (2011) and SAS software, version 9.3 (SAS Institute). Matched bivariate analyses were conducted using a conditional logistic regression model. Matched multivariable models were constructed using Cox proportional hazards regression, accounting for clustering in matched pairs. All variables with a P value of <0.1 in the bivariate matched analyses were considered for inclusion in the multivariate matched analyses. A stepwise selection procedure was used to select variables for inclusion in the final model. The final selected model was tested for confounding. If a covariate affected the β-coefficient of a variable in the model by >10%, then the confounding variable was maintained in the multivariable model. The percentages reported are the “valid percentage,” i.e., the percentage excluding data missing from the denominator, unless otherwise stated. A two-sided P value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

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RESULTS

A total of 15 patients with IMP-producing E. cloacae were identified among 260 unique patients from whomE. cloacae was isolated during the study period. In these patients, IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates were identified from blood (n = 5), wounds (n = 4; 3 were intraabdominal), urine (n = 3), sputum (n = 2), and stool (n = 1). A patient who had IMP-producing E. cloacae isolated from stool was suspected as having infectious colitis. Therefore, a stool culture was performed, which grew IMP-producing E. cloacae. The characteristics of the 15 patients who had IMP-producing E. cloacae isolated are summarized in Table 1. The mean age of patients was 70.9 ± 19.4 years. Eight (53%) patients were admitted for diseases associated with the gastrointestinal tract (including the biliary tract), and 3 (20%) were admitted for neurological problems, including cerebral vascular accidents. With regard to infectious clinical syndromes associated with IMP-producing E. cloacae, 3 (20%) had catheter-related bloodstream infections (2 peripheral line associated and 1 central line associated), 3 (20%) had cholangitis, 2 (13%) had catheter-associated urinary tract infection, and 2 (13%) had catheter-associated asymptomatic bacteriuria. Overall, 10 cases were considered to have infection, and 5 (including 2 catheter-associated asymptomatic bacteriuria) cases had IMP-producing E. cloacae colonization. The median length of hospital stay prior to IMP-producing E. cloacae isolation was 47 days (interquartile range [IQR], 13 to 101 days).

Two of the 15 patients (13%; 40% of 5 patients with bacteremia and 20% of 10 patients with infection [not colonization]) died during their hospital stay despite receiving effective therapy. Five patients (33%) from whom IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates were obtained only had asymptomatic colonization, and therefore, no antibiotics targeting IMP-producing E. cloacae were given. Two patients (patients 3 and 13) did not receive appropriate antibiotics for IMP-producing E. cloacae based on in vitro susceptibility. However, both of these patients improved clinically, probably because of the infected site (the urinary tract, where high antibiotic concentrations can be expected) and removal of devices (urinary catheter and peripheral line). The rest of the patients received effective therapy. Nine (60%) patients had bacteria other than IMP-producing E. cloacae isolated from the same culture specimen (i.e., polymicrobial isolation).

Table 2 shows the susceptibility profiles and resistance genes of the IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates. All 15 clinical isolates were susceptible to aminoglycosides (amikacin and gentamicin) (23) and colistin (27). The MICs of fluoroquinolone (ciprofloxacin) varied from ≤0.25 to 32 μg/ml; 7 (47%) of the 15 isolates were resistant per CLSI criteria (M100–S22) (23). The MICs of meropenem and imipenem were not elevated; 10 (67%) and 12 (80%) of the isolates, respectively, were categorized as susceptible (≤1 μg/ml) according to recent CLSI criteria (M100–S22) (23). Ten clinical isolates were positive for the blaIMP-1 gene, and 5 for theblaIMP-11 gene. IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates were positive for multiple resistance genes (Table 2).

A phylogenetic tree (Fig. 1) showed a close relationship among IMP-producing E. cloacae samples isolated from the NCGM during the study period, except for one isolate (EC15) obtained from a patient who had been transferred from another hospital. The time line of the hospital location of patients with IMP-producingE. cloacae is shown in Table 3. This time line suggested possible transmission of IMP-producing E. cloacaein particular wards (C, D, H, and K).

To further determine the risk factors for isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae, 15 IMP-producing E. cloacae cases were matched to 45 uninfected controls. The overall mean age of the study cohort (n = 60) was 66 ± 18.7 years, and 28 (46.7%) of the patients were men. Bivariate analysis comparing IMP-producing E. cloacae cases and uninfected controls is shown in Table 4. Patients with isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae were more likely to have health care-associated exposure, such as recent hospitalization, invasive procedures, and surgery within 3 months. Patients with isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae had indwelling devices more frequently than uninfected controls. All patients with isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae had at least 1 indwelling device, including a central line (n = 4, 27%), urinary catheter (n = 9, 60%), tracheostomy tube (n = 2, 13%), dialysis catheter (n = 2, 13%), biliary drainage tube/stent (n = 4, 27%), or nasogastric tube or percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (n = 4, 27%) at the time of IMP-producing E. cloacae isolation. Antibiotic exposure was more common in the IMP-producing E. cloacae group than in controls. All of the patients with isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae had antimicrobial exposure within 3 months; the most frequent exposures were to cephalosporins (n = 9, 60%), followed by glycopeptides (n = 6, 40%), penicillins (n = 6, 40%), and carbapenems (n = 6, 40%).

Although in-hospital mortality was similar between cases and controls (14.3% versus 13.3%), the in-hospital mortality of patients with isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae bacteremia was significantly higher (40%) than that in controls (P = 0.014). Functional deterioration was more common in the IMP-producing E. cloacae group than in uninfected controls (25% versus 2.6%, P = 0.05).

Independent predictors for the isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae were determined by multivariate analyses (Table 5). Invasive procedures in the past 3 months and exposure to cephalosporins in the past 3 months were independently associated with isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae, and thus, these were considered risk factors for the isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae, in addition to the patients' locations in the hospital.

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DISCUSSION

This study examined molecular and epidemiological characteristics of clinically obtained metallo-β-lactamase-producing E. cloacae isolates. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to systematically elucidate independent risk factors for the isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae. For the risk factor analyses, we carefully included risk factors known to be associated with the isolation of multidrug-resistantEnterobacteriaceae species (28,–30). In addition, two individuals (an infectious diseases specialist and an infection preventionist) independently reviewed the patients' medical records and visited each ward as often as possible to rule out any common source of infection other than those included in the risk factor analyses. We chose to collect samples from patients admitted to the hospital who were at risk of acquiring the antimicrobial-resistant organism (control type 2) rather than from patients with cultures positive for the antibiotic-susceptible form of the organism of interest (control type 1). This is because a previous study showed that the selection of control patients from the type 1 group can falsely identify certain antibiotics and overestimate the odds ratio (OR) of the use of antimicrobial agents as risk factors (15).

In our study, IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates were obtained from elderly, debilitated individuals whose length of hospital stay prior to the isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae was long (median, 47 days; IQR, 13 to 101 days) (Table 1). Catheter-related bloodstream infections and cholangitis were two major infectious clinical syndromes caused by IMP-producing E. cloacae. Notably, all 15 patients with isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae had exposure to antibiotics in the 3 months prior to IMP-producing E. cloacaeisolation. Additionally, all patients with isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae had at least one indwelling device at the time of IMP-producing E. cloacae isolation. These were apparent risk factors for the isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae, although they could not be incorporated into the final multivariate models to identify independent risk factors for the isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae because all (100%) IMP-producing E. cloacae cases had these exposures (exposures to antibiotics and/or indwelling devices). Other independent risk factors for the isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae were invasive procedures and exposure to cephalosporins in the 3 months prior. Carbapenem and cephalosporin exposure has been reported as a risk factor for the isolation of carbapenem-resistant organisms, such as IMP-type metallo-β-lactamase-producing organisms (31), multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa producing SPM-type metallo-β-lactamase (32), and carbapenem-resistant K. pneumonia (13). In our study, carbapenem exposure was much more common in the IMP-producing E. cloacae group than in uninfected controls, but this was not identified as an independent risk factor.

The phylogenetic tree (Fig. 1) and time line of hospital locations of patients with IMP-producing E. cloacae (Table 3) suggested possible transmission of IMP-producing E. cloacae in particular wards in our hospital. An infection control team emphasized the importance of infection control measures, especially strict compliance with contact isolation procedures in each ward. The incidence of new isolations of IMP-producing E. cloacae has eventually decreased to 2 cases over 5 months since March 2013.

IMP-producing E. cloacae possesses many other resistance genes (Table 2). Seven (47%) of the isolates were resistant to ciprofloxacin. This is in accordance with previous reports of metallo-β-lactamase-producing organisms with low susceptibilities to different classes of antibiotics (33). Isolates with aacA1/aacA4resistance genes had elevated MICs (8 to 16 μg/ml) to amikacin but not to gentamicin. The difference is probably related to the resistance mechanism of AAC(6′)-I, associated with the aacA1/aacA4 gene, which is known to acetylate tobramycin and amikacin but not gentamicin.

As previously reported, the MICs of meropenem and imipenem were not elevated in our study. Bloodstream infections caused by IMP-type metallo-β-lactamase-producing E. cloacae isolates with a MIC of 2 μg/ml have been previously reported; however, in these reports, the exact methods of measuring the MIC were not described (9). In our study, even when using the revised CLSI criteria (defining susceptibility as a MIC of ≤1 μg/ml), 67% and 80% of IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates were categorized as susceptible to meropenem and imipenem, respectively (23). This finding underscores the difficulties in identifying metallo-β-carbapenemase-producing organisms solely based on MIC results, as previously reported (34,–36). In geographical areas where the IMP-type carbapenemase is endemic, such as Asia (34,–36), both ESBLs and metallo-β-lactamase might need to be considered when assessing a patient with infection due toEnterobacteriaceae species with elevated MICs to penicillins and cephalosporins, including oxyimino-cephalosporins (2, 37). This is particularly important for patients who fail to respond to carbapenem treatment despite the low MICs to carbapenems (9).

In our study, all of the blaIMP-positive isolates were positive for IMP in the immunochromatographic assay, with 2 false-positive results during the study period. The immunochromatographic assay is technically easy to use as a screening method in hospital microbiology laboratories (22); further investigations are warranted to evaluate the diagnostic usefulness of detecting IMP-metallo-β-carbapenemase. The IMP-containing integron has been suggested to spread through horizontal transfer (38), so early recognition of IMP-producing organisms is of particular importance.

Two (patients 1 and 2) of the 15 patients (13%; 40% of 5 patients with bacteremia and 20% of patients with infection [not colonization]) died during their hospital stay. The IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates from these 2 patients had relatively low MICs to meropenem (MICs of 2 μg/ml and 1 μg/ml), and both patients received meropenem as empirical therapy; however, they both deteriorated clinically. Their multiple comorbid conditions and old age are likely to have contributed to their unfortunate clinical courses. However, our results raise some concern for relying on carbapenem as a treatment option in infections, especially for elderly individuals and/or those with comorbidities. Previous reports have suggested conflicting results (34,39,–41). Therefore, further studies are needed on this issue.

The majority of the isolates are clonally related, and thus, an outbreak might have occurred in the hospital. However, they possessed different resistance genes, as shown in Table 2. Although we suspected that mobile elements may have been transferred among strains that had the same drug resistance genes, the exact mechanisms for the closely related strains to acquire different drug resistance genes are not certain. Even though a close relationship among IMP-positive isolates was found by MLST, these isolates had two different types of blaIMP genes, IMP-1 and IMP-11. Although IMP-type metallo-β lactamase enzymes are thought to be located within a variety of integron structures (38), in this study, we did not determine the exact mechanism of how each E. cloacae isolate acquired the IMP-type metallo-β-lactamase. Further studies are warranted to determine the exact mechanisms by which E. cloacae acquires IMP-type metallo-β-lactamase.

In conclusion, we identified the risk factors for isolation of IMP-producing E. cloacae, as well as molecular and microbiological characteristics of these isolates. Considering the clinical outcomes in our patient cohort, a lower threshold for screening for carbapenemase production is recommended in patients who have previous exposure to antimicrobials, indwelling devices, and recent invasive procedures and from whom E. cloacaethat is resistant to one or multiple agents in the extended-spectrum cephalosporin class and/or shows elevated MICs (>1 μg/ml) to imipenem and/or meropenem has been isolated. Choosing an appropriate antimicrobial therapy, as well as applying strong infection control measures, are clinically important measures for patients from whom IMP-producing E. cloacae isolates have been obtained.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest.

K.H. and T.M.-A. were supported by Grants for International Health Research (24S-5 and 26A-103, respectively) from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan. T.K. was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan (H24-Shinko-Ippan-010).

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FOOTNOTES

Published ahead of print 7 April 2014

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Molecular and Epidemiological Characterization of IMP-Type Metallo-β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacter cloacae in a Large Tertiary Care Hospital in Japan

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