Sok-hoon Jung

Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the major concerns in clinical settings impelling a great challenge to antimicrobial therapy for patients with infections caused by the pathogen. While membrane permeability, together with derepression of the intrinsic beta-lactamase gene, is the global prevailing mechanism of carbapenem resistance in P. aeruginosa , the acquired genes for carbapenemases need special attention because horizontal gene transfer through mobile genetic elements,

To determine the prevalence and genotypes of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) among clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli, we performed antibiotic susceptibility testing, pI determination, induction testing, transconjugation, and DNA sequencing analysis. Among the 509 isolates collected from 13 university hospitals in Korea, 39.2% produced ESBLs. ESBL-producing isolates were detected in every region in Korea. A total of 44.6% of the isolates produced both TEM-

Among 53 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates collected in 2004, nine imipenem-resistant isolates were obtained from clinical specimens taken from patients hospitalized in Busan, Korea. Nine carbapenemase-producing isolates were further investigated in order to determine the mechanisms underlying resistance. These isolates were then analyzed via antibiotic susceptibility testing, microbiological tests of carbapenemase activity, pI determination, transconjugation test, enterobacterial repetitive cons

The bla(CTX-M-14) gene was probably mobilized by IncF plasmids, which can readily spread in E. coli, causing horizontal dissemination of the resistance gene in Korea.

Species identification by using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is a routine diagnostic process for infectious diseases in current clinical settings. The rapid, low-cost, and simple to conduct methodology is expanding its application in clinical microbiology laboratories to diagnose the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in microorganisms. Primarily, antimicrobial susceptibility testing is able to be carried out either by comparing the area

Despite the reported virulence of hypermucoviscous KP strains, they were associated with good prognoses in KP BSI patients. Importantly, carriage of the pks gene cluster, which is responsible for the synthesis of colibactin, was a relevant marker of early mortality.

We report the first description of a new integron containing bla(VIM-2), a metallo-beta-lactamase gene from Enterobacter cloacae KU680, which was isolated from peritoneal fluid of a liver cirrhosis patient in South Korea. Antibiotic susceptibility testing, and modified Hodge and EDTA-disc synergy tests, were carried out to screen for metallo-beta-lactamase-producing strains. PCR and sequence analysis were used to identify and analyse the bla(VIM-2)-containing integron. The isolate was resistant

To monitor national antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the Korea Global AMR Surveillance System (Kor-GLASS) was established. This study analyzed bloodstream infection (BSI) cases from Kor-GLASS phase I from January 2017 to December 2019. Nine non-duplicated Kor-GLASS target pathogens, including Staphylococcus aureus , Enterococcus faecalis , Enterococcus faecium , Streptococcus pneumoniae , Escherichia coli , Klebsiella pneumoniae , Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Acinetobacter spp., and Salmonella spp.,

AIM: To assess the epidemiology of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in South Korea. MATERIALS & METHODS: From 2011 to 2015, 2487 carbapenem-nonsusceptible Enterobacteriaceae were collected through the Korean National Laboratory Surveillance System. Disk-diffusion for antimicrobial susceptibility, PCR/sequencing to detect carbapenemase genes and multilocus sequence typing for molecular epidemiology were carried out. RESULTS: The number of carbapenem-nonsusceptible Enterobacteriace

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to confirm the synergistic effect of colistin/rifampicin combination therapy compared with colistin monotherapy in pneumonia caused by colistin-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CoRAB). The utility of the Etest was also assessed. METHODS: Nine subjects with pneumonia caused by CoRAB were enrolled from 20 July 2016 to 21 June 2018. Subjects were randomised to colistin/rifampicin combination therapy or colistin monotherapy. After exclusion of one patient who

Improving predictive models for intensive care unit (ICU) inpatients requires a new strategy that periodically includes the latest clinical data and can be updated to reflect local characteristics. We extracted data from all adult patients admitted to the ICUs of two university hospitals with different characteristics from 2006 to 2020, and a total of 85,146 patients were included in this study. Machine learning algorithms were trained to predict in-hospital mortality. The predictive performance

Despite decades' effort searching for the risk factors for E. coli BSI, systemic understanding covering the entire tripartite component is still lacking. This study detailed the organic impact of host-pathogen-treatment tripartite components for early mortality in patients with E. coli BSI.

Objectives: High rates of carbapenem resistance in the human pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii threaten public health and need to be scrutinized. Methods: A total of 356 A. baumannii and 50 non-baumannii Acinetobacter spp. (NBA) strains collected in 2013 throughout South Korea were studied. The type of blaOXA-23 transposon was determined by PCR mapping and molecular epidemiology was assessed by MLST. Twelve representative strains and two comparative A. baumannii were entirely sequenced by single-