Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate activity,resistance, clonality of MIC distribution, and the correlation between virulence&resistance gene and biofilm formation of omadacycline (OMC) in clinical for Streptococcus agalactiae isolates from China.
Methods: 162 isolates were collected retrospectively in China from 2018 to 2019. The S. agalactiae were mainly collected from the body's cervical secretions, wound secretions, ear swab, secretions, semen, venous blood, cerebrospinal fluid, pee, urethral discharge, pus, umbilical secretions, wound secretions, reproductive tract secretions, sputum, gastric juice, throat swab, eye secretions and amniotic fluid. The MIC of OMC against S. agalactiae were determined by broth microdilution. Filter paper was used to measure the inhibition zone diameters of OMC and other common antibiotics. D-test detected the incidence of erythromycin resistance to inductively clindamycin. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST),resistance&virulence gene of the isolates were investigated using qRT-PCR. Biofilms were detected by crystal violet staining.
Results: The OMC MIC of clinical S. agalactiae isolates ranged from ≤0.25 to 0.5 mg/L. 19.7% of the S. agalactiae isolates with an OMC MIC of 0.25 mg/L were found to be sequence type (ST) 17. The S. agalactiae had highly resistant to Minocyclin, Erytromycin, Solithromycin and Clindamycin and the resistance rate of OMA was 13.6%. The positive rate of D-test was 90.74 %. The formation of biofilm was related to scpB gene, and indicated the resistance of OMA may be related to the virulence gene scpB.
Conclusion: OMC exhibited better activity against clinical S. agalactiae isolates from China than DOX or MIN, and scpB was related with biofilm formation in OMC- resistance S. agalactiae.