Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To explore the drug resistance of
Escherichia coli strains isolated from the patients with corn husker-induced non-healing wound infection and observe the drug resistance genes.
METHODS A total of 108 patients with corn husker-induced non-healing wound infection who were treated in the Hengshui People’s Hospital from Jan 2017 to Jan 2020 were enrolled in the study and divided into the type I group with 21 cases, the type Ⅱ group with 24 cases, the type Ⅲ group with 30 cases, and the type IV group with 33 cases according to the degree of injury. The
E.coli strains were isolated from wound secretions specimens, drug susceptibility testing was performed by means of disc diffusion method, drug resistance genes in the
E.coli strains were detected by using polymerase chain reaction(PCR), and the drug resistance genes were compared among the patients with different degree of injury.
RESULTS There were no significant differences in age, gender, education background, sites of injury, and bare-handed operation as well as levels of C-reactive protein(CRP), interferon-γ(IFN-γ), interleukin-6(IL-6) and natural killer(NK) cells among the four groups, however, there were significant differences in the treatment mode and length of hospital stay(
P<0.05). The drug resistance rates of the
E.coli strains to gentamicin, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, aztreonam and amikacin were 67.59%, 59.26%, 51.85%, 20.37% and 10.19%,respectively, while the strains were highly sensitive to imipenem, meropenem and cefoperazone-sulbactam(100%). The detection rates of TEM, CTX-M-9, CTX-M-55,
qnrB,
aac(3)-Ⅱ and
aadA5 in the
E.coli strains were respectively 55.56%, 46.30%,21.30%, 19.44%, 58.33% and 51.85%; there were no significant differences in the detection rates of β-lactams-,quinolones-, and aminoglycosides-resistant genes among the four groups.
CONCLUSION The isolated
E.coli strains are resistant to penicillin, cephalosporins, quinolones, aminoglycosides and β-lactams, which may be associated with its carrying with drug resistance genes.