• 1. Department of Clinical Laboratory, People’s Hospital of Dayi County, Dayi, Sichuan 611330, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Xindu District People’s Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Clinical Laboratory, TCM Hospital of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, Sichuan 610032, P. R. China;
  • 4. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Pengzhou People’s Hospital, Pengzhou, Sichuan 611930, P. R. China;
  • 5. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Sichuan Tianfu New Area People’s Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan 611330, P. R. China;
LIN Lei, Email: 1498296455@qq.com
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Objective  To compare the screening ability of modified Hodge test (MHT), modified carbapenem inactivation method (mCIM) and EDTA-carbapenem inactivation method (eCIM) for drug resistance phenotype of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. Methods Carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) strains clinically isolated from 5 hospitals in Chengdu between January 2019 and December 2021 were collected, and the carbapenem sensitive Klebsiella pneumoniae (CSKP) strains isolated in the same period were randomly collected. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -amplified carbapenem resistance gene as the gold standard, the consistencies between the results of the three phenotypic tests and the results of genetic testing were compared. Results  A total of 160 CRKP strains and 120 CSKP strains were isolated. Among the 160 CRKP strains, carbapenem resistance genes were detected in 156 strains, including 105 strains of blaKPC-2, 41 strains of blaNDM-1, 8 strains of blaKPC-19, 1 strain of blaIMP-1, and 1 strain carrying both blaKPC-2 and blaNDM-1. None of the 120 CSKP drug resistance genes were detected. The sensitivity and specificity of carbapenem screening for MHT and mCIM were 73.08% (114/156), 96.67% (116/120), 97.44% (152/156) and 98.33% (118/120), respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of eCIM for screening metalloenzymes were 95.35% (41/43) and 100% (120/120), respectively. Conclusions  The sensitivity of MHT to detect carbapenemase is lower than that of the other two methods, and it is easy to produce false negatives when it is used to detect metalloenzymes. The mCIM has high sensitivity and is consistent with the PCR genetic test results. The combined detection of mCIM and eCIM can screen carbapenemases more effectively and distinguish the types of carbapenemases.

Citation: WANG Qun, YE Meiyi, SUN Yang, CHEN Tao, WANG Fang, WANG Fangfang, HUANG Chunhua, LIN Lei. Evaluation of clinical efficacy of three phenotypic tests for screening carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. West China Medical Journal, 2023, 38(8): 1148-1153. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202301113 Copy

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