{"id":17228,"date":"2021-04-20T09:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T07:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/?p=17228"},"modified":"2021-04-20T09:20:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T07:20:06","slug":"identifiquen-els-mecanismes-genetics-dadquisicio-de-resistencia-als-antibiotics-de-h-parainfluenzae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/2021\/04\/identifiquen-els-mecanismes-genetics-dadquisicio-de-resistencia-als-antibiotics-de-h-parainfluenzae\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifiquen els mecanismes gen\u00e8tics d\u2019adquisici\u00f3 de resist\u00e8ncia als antibi\u00f2tics de H. parainfluenzae"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haemophilus parainfluenzae<\/em> \u00e9s un bacteri oportunista<\/strong>, \u00e9s a dir, que pot viure en l’hoste sense causar problemes, per\u00f2 en moments determinats, quan per exemple el sistema immunitari est\u00e0 debilitat, pot causar malalties greus que incl\u00fas poden posar en risc la vida.<\/p>\n

La resist\u00e8ncia als antibi\u00f2tics<\/strong> \u00e9s un fenomen natural en el qual els bacteris s’adapten i evolucionen per a fer-se resistents al tractament amb antibi\u00f2tics. No obstant aix\u00f2, l’\u00fas indegut d’aquests f\u00e0rmacs en persones i animals n’est\u00e0 accelerant el proc\u00e9s convertint-lo en un dels majors problemes de salut p\u00fablica a nivell mundial.<\/p>\n

En el cas de H. parainfluenzae<\/em> l’adquisici\u00f3 de resist\u00e8ncies es pot donar per mutacions puntals del genoma o per l’addici\u00f3 de nous gens que li confereixen resist\u00e8ncia. Aquest segon mecanisme t\u00e9 lloc gr\u00e0cies a l’exist\u00e8ncia de petits fragments d’ADN, anomenats transposons, amb la capacitat de moure’s de manera autosuficient, mecanisme habitual en moltes esp\u00e8cies bacterianes.<\/p>\n

El grup de recerca en Epidemiologia de les Infeccions Bacterianes<\/a> de l’Institut d’Investigaci\u00f3 Biom\u00e8dica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL) i l’Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge (HUB), liderats per la Dra. Sara Mart\u00ed<\/strong> conjuntament amb la Dra. Carme Ardanuy<\/strong>, han realitzat un estudi gen\u00f2mic per tal de caracteritzar en detall els mecanismes d’adquisici\u00f3 de resist\u00e8ncia de H. parainfluenzae<\/em> a\u00efllats del tracte urogenital i respiratori. Aquest estudi ha format part de dues tesis doctorals que van ser defensades al campus de Bellvitge el passat mes de juliol per dos membres del servei de microbiologia, Yanik Sierra<\/strong> i Aida Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Els resultats, publicats a la revista Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy<\/em><\/a>, han identificat grans fragments m\u00f2bils d’ADN que contenen fins a tres transposons que confereixen resist\u00e8ncia a diferents antibi\u00f2tics. Aix\u00f2, segons la Dra. Mart\u00ed<\/strong> indica que “els elements transferibles podrien estar jugant un paper molt important en la transmissi\u00f3 de resist\u00e8ncies<\/em>“, i afegeix, “aquests elements podrien contribuir a la propagaci\u00f3 d’aquestes resist\u00e8ncies d’uns bacteris als altres<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Estudis recents del mateix grup havien reportat que soques de H. parainfluenzae<\/em> a\u00efllades del tracte urogenital, i resistents a diversos antibi\u00f2tics, havien desenvolupat c\u00e0psules de polisac\u00e0rids<\/strong>, caracter\u00edstica no descrita fins al moment en aquesta esp\u00e8cie bacteriana. “Aquests embolcalls compostos de sucres es consideren un factor de virul\u00e8ncia, ja que protegeixen els bacteris de l’atac del sistema immunitari i altres agressions<\/em>“, indica la Dra. Ardanuy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Les an\u00e0lisis gen\u00f2miques realitzades en l’estudi actual, nom\u00e9s han trobat els gens codificants per la c\u00e0psula en aquelles soques a\u00efllades del tracte urogenital, el qu\u00e8, segons les Dres. Mart\u00ed i Ardanuy podria indicar la capacitat del H. parainfluenzae<\/em> a adaptar-se als diferents ambients.<\/p>\n

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L\u2019Institut d’Investigaci\u00f3 Biom\u00e8dica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL) \u00e9s un centre de recerca en biomedicina creat l\u2019any 2004. Est\u00e0 participat per l’Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge i l\u2019Hospital de Viladecans de l’Institut Catal\u00e0 de la Salut, l’Institut Catal\u00e0 d’Oncologia, la Universitat de Barcelona i l\u2019Ajuntament de l\u2019Hospitalet de Llobregat.<\/em><\/p>\n

L\u2019IDIBELL \u00e9s membre del Campus d’Excel\u00b7l\u00e8ncia Internacional de la Universitat de Barcelona HUBc i forma part de la instituci\u00f3 CERCA de la Generalitat de Catalunya. L’any 2009 es va convertir en un dels cinc primers centres d\u2019investigaci\u00f3 espanyols acreditats com a institut d\u2019investigaci\u00f3 sanit\u00e0ria per l\u2019Instituto de Salud Carlos III. A m\u00e9s, forma part del programa \u201cHR Excellence in Research\u201d de la Uni\u00f3 Europea i \u00e9s membre de EATRIS i REGIC. Des de l\u2019any 2018, l\u2019IDIBELL \u00e9s un Centro Acreditado de la Fundaci\u00f3n Cient\u00edfica AECC (FCAECC).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El treball del grup de recerca en Epidemiologia de les Infeccions Bacterianes de l’IDIBELL i el HUB indica que el bacteri podria aconseguir resist\u00e8ncia a trav\u00e9s de l\u2019adquisici\u00f3 de fragments d’ADN m\u00f2bils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[480,334,479],"tags":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-11 13:47:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibell.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}