Pyrazinamide susceptibility and pncA mutation profiles of mycobacterium tuberculosis among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Bangladesh

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Rahman, A
Ferdous, SS
Ahmed, S
Rahman, SMM
Uddin, MKM
Pholwat, S
Gratz, J
Houpt, E
Banua, S
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Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a frontline antituberculosis (anti-TB) drug used in both first- and second-line treatment regimens. However, due to complex laboratory requirements, the PZA susceptibility test is rarely performed, leading to a scarcity of data on susceptibility to PZA. Bangladesh is a country with a burden of high rates of both TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), but to our knowledge, published data on rates of PZA susceptibility (PZAs), especially among MDR-TB patients, are limited. We aimed to analyze the PZA susceptibility patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from MDR-TB patients and to correlate the pncA mutation with PZA resistance in Bangladesh. A total of 169 confirmed MDR M. tuberculosis isolates from a pool of specimens collected in a nationwide surveillance study were included in this analysis. All the isolates were tested for phenotypic PZA susceptibility in Bactec mycobacterial growth indicator tube (MGIT) culture medium, and the pncA gene was sequenced. We also correlated different types of clinical information and treatment outcomes with PZA susceptibility. We found that 45% of isolates were phenotypically PZA resistant. Sequencing of the pncA gene revealed a high concordance (82.2%) between the pncA gene sequence and the phenotypic assay results. A total of 64 different mutations were found, and 9 isolates harbored multiple mutations. We detected 27 new pncA mutations. We did not find any significant correlation between the different clinical categories, the genetic lineage, or treatment outcome group and PZA susceptibility. Considering the turnaround time, sequencing would be the more feasible option to determine PZA susceptibility, and further studies to investigate the MIC of PZA should be conducted to determine an effective dose of the drug.

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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

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61

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9

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© 2017 Rahman et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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Microbiology

Medical microbiology

Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences

Bangladesh

MDR-TB

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

pncA

pyrazinamide

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Rahman, A; Ferdous, SS; Ahmed, S; Rahman, SMM; Uddin, MKM; Pholwat, S; Gratz, J; Houpt, E; Banua, S, Pyrazinamide susceptibility and pncA mutation profiles of mycobacterium tuberculosis among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Bangladesh, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2017, 61 (9), pp. e00511-17

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