Background: Adherent invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) are implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) particularly Crohn's disease (CD). The aim of this study is to isolate, identify, genotype, and characterize the virulence factors and the clinical significance of AIEC strains.
Methods: Ileal and colonic biopsies from 24 active CD patients and 15 healthy controls (HC) were collected. E. coli strains were identified by standard biochemical tests and confirmed by MALDI-TOF (bioMerieux, France) system. The AIEC phenotypes were determined by the adhesion, invasion, and survival within macrophages assays. The genetic virulence factors and genotyping characteristics were determined by PCR and PFGE respectively. The abundance and the antibiogram profile of E. coli strains was determined by qPCR and VITEK®2 (bioMerieux, France) automated system respectively.
Results: E. coli strains from 17 CD patients and 14 HC were isolated, 10 (59%) and 7 (50%) of them were identified as AIEC strains, respectively. We found that chuA and ratA genes were the most significant genetic markers associated with AIEC compared to non-AIEC strains isolated from CD patients and HC p = 0.0119, 0.0094 respectively. The majority of E. coli strains obtained from CD patients showed antibiotic resistance (71%) compared to HC (29%) against at least one antibiotic. The AIEC-like strains were more resistant to antibiotics compared to non-AIEC-like strains (53%) and (21%) respectively.
Conclusions: We have determined significant differences between AIEC strains and non-AIEC strains in terms of the prevalence of chuA and ratA virulence genes and the antibiotic resistance profiles. In addition, AIEC strains isolated from CD patients were found to be more resistant to penicillin/beta lactam and aminoglycoside antibiotics than AIEC strains isolated from HC 80%, 14% respectively.
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