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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (5): 516-520.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2021.05.019

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Identification and drug resistance of 439 clinical isolates of non-tuberculosis mycobacterium in Shandong

FENG Bin-bin, JIN Feng, JING Hui, WANG Jun-ling, LIN Mei-ying, QIAO Xiu-li, LI Ming, QIU Li-hua()   

  1. Shandong Provincial Public Health Clinical Center, Ji’nan 250100, China
  • Received:2021-01-14 Online:2021-05-10 Published:2021-04-30
  • Contact: QIU Li-hua E-mail:Qiu-lh@163.com

Abstract:

In order to analyze the distribution and drug resistance of clinical isolates of non-tuberculosis mycobacterium (NTM) in Shandong, 354 clinical isolates from patients with NTM lung disease in Shandong Provincial Chest Hospital from January 2015 to December 2019 were selected for strain identification, and drug resistance of the isolates to 25 drugs such as isoniazid, rifampicin and ethambutol was also analyzed (absolute concentration method was used before 2018, and microplate method was used after 2018). The results showed that 12 species were identified from 354 clinical isolates of NTM, and the main strains were Mycobacterium intracellular (69.77%, 247/354), Mycobacterium kansasii (12.71%, 45/354) and Mycobacterium abscessus (7.63%, 27/354). Of the patients, the proportion of the male was significantly higher than that of the female ((64.97% (230/354) vs. 35.03% (124/354), χ 2=18.639, P<0.01);the proportion of aged ≥45 years old was significantly higher than that of aged <45 years old (84.75% (300/354) vs. 15.25% (54/354), χ 2=42.363, P<0.01). One hundred and eighty-three (51.69%) NTM isolates were tested for drug sensitivity, of which 50 isolates were tested by absolute concentration method. The results showed that the drug resistance rate to ethambutol was 52.00% (26/50), and the drug resistance rates of the other 9 drugs (isoniazid, rifampicin, streptomycin, capreomycin, levofloxacin, p-aminosalicylic acid, amikacin, kanamycin, ofloxacin) were all higher than 86.00%. The other 133 isolates were tested by microplate method. The results showed that the drug resistance rates of moxifloxacin, amikacin and clarithromycin were all low (0.00% (0/133), 3.76% (5/133) and 6.02% (8/133), respectively), while the drug resistance rates of imipenem/cilastatin, doxycycline, minocycline and cotrimoxazole were all high (98.50% (131/133), 91.73% (122/133), 90.23% (120/133) and 90.23% (120/133), respectively). The drug resistance of different NTM strains to some drugs showed interspecific differences.

Key words: Mycobacteria, atypical, Bacterial typing techniques, Microbial sensitivity tests, Data interpretation, statistical