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In vitro activity of meropenem/vaborbactam and characterisation of carbapenem resistance mechanisms among carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from the 2015 meropenem/vaborbactam surveillance programme.

The activity of meropenem/vaborbactam was evaluated against 11 559 Enterobacteriaceae isolates, including 330 carbapenem-resistant phenotypes (CRE) and carbapenemase genotypes collected worldwide during 2015. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing for meropenem/vaborbactam (inhibitor at 8 mg/L) and comparators was performed by the reference broth microdilution method. CRE isolates were screened for the presence of genes encoding carbapenemases, and 292 (88.5%) of the CRE isolates carried these resistance genes. A total of 209 isolates (63.3% of the CRE; 1.8% of the overall Enterobacteriaceae population) carried blaKPC , including genes encoding KPC-2 (90 isolates), KPC-3 (117 isolates) and KPC-17 (2 isolates). Overall, meropenem/vaborbactam (vaborbactam at 8 mg/L) inhibited 99.3% of all Enterobacteriaceae isolates at the US-FDA susceptibility breakpoint of ≤4/8 mg/L. Meropenem alone inhibited 96.9% of the isolates at the current CLSI susceptibility breakpoint of ≤2 mg/L. Susceptibility rates for comparator antimicrobial agents tested against Enterobacteriaceae isolates ranged from 82.1-98.2% applying the CLSI breakpoints. Against CRE isolates, meropenem/vaborbactam displayed MIC50/90 values at 0.5/32 mg/L, whereas meropenem MIC50/90 values were 16/>32 mg/L. Meropenem/vaborbactam was very active against KPC-producers, and 99.5% of these isolates were inhibited by ≤4/8 mg/L. The single resistant isolate was shown to harbour an outer membrane porin alteration. Meropenem/vaborbactam had limited activity against MBL-producing isolates (including 49 NDM-, 1 IMP-64- and 2 VIM-producers) and/or oxacillinases (47 OXA-48/-232) that were detected mainly in European countries. Meropenem/vaborbactam was active against contemporary CRE and wild-type Enterobacteriaceae collected worldwide and this combination demonstrated enhanced activity compared with meropenem and most comparator agents against CRE and KPC-producers.

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