Sphiongomonas paucimobilis: A multidrug resistance pattern in emerging like bacterial pathogen

Abstract

Introduction: Bacterial multidrug resistance is becoming a worldwide health problem in pathogenic bacteria, and emerging bacterial pathogen. Objective: The aim of this study was to describe a multidrug resistance pattern in Sphingomonas paucimobilis, isolated from urine sample. Patient and methods: A 55 years old woman was received at the Hôpital de l'Amitié Sino-Guinéenne of Kipé/Conakry for biological analysis at the November 29th, 2017. The bacterial identification and antibiograms were processed on Vitek 2 Compact 15 (Biomérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France).  Results: The bacterial isolate was identified as Sphingomonas paucimobilis. The antibiograms using AST-N 233 and AST-XN05 cards showed that this isolate was resistant to all antibiotics tested with high MICs, except for tetracyclines and chloramphenicol to which, this isolate was susceptible. Conclusion: Our findings showed that this isolate of Sphingomonas paucimobils must be considered as an emerging bacterial pathogen showing a multidrug resistance pattern to nearly all antibiotic families.