The dominance of bacterial genotypes leads to susceptibility variations under sublethal antibiotic pressure

To investigate the collective resistance of the bacteria population with resistant horizontal gene transfer under sublethal bactericide pressure. By employing qualitative analysis of ordinary differential equations, particularly bifurcation theory and several numerical simulations, a modified 4D ord...

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Published in:Future microbiology 2018-02, Vol.13 (2), p.165-185
Main Authors: Xu, Shilian, Yang, Jiaru, Yin, Chong, Zhao, Xiaohua
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antibiotics
Autosomal dominant inheritance
Bacteria
bistability
chromosome
Chromosomes
Differential equations
Drug resistance
Dynamical systems
Equilibrium
Evolution
Gene transfer
Genes
Genotypes
Heterogeneity
Horizontal transfer
mathematical model
Ordinary differential equations
plasmid
Plasmids
Population
Pressure
Qualitative analysis
resistance
sublethal antibiotic
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Summary:To investigate the collective resistance of the bacteria population with resistant horizontal gene transfer under sublethal bactericide pressure. By employing qualitative analysis of ordinary differential equations, particularly bifurcation theory and several numerical simulations, a modified 4D ordinary differential equation model describing antibiotic susceptibility variations induced by sublethal antibiotic pressure is analyzed in detail. The long-term behaviors and collective resistance of different bacterial genotype populations in different sublethal bactericide concentration subintervals exhibit high levels of heterogeneity and are determined by the protection provided by resistant genes on chromosome or plasmid, their fitness costs, plasmid segregation rate and sublethal bactericide pressure. First, the possible mechanism of antibiotic susceptibility variations is the dominance of different bacterial genotypes under sublethal bactericide pressure, rather than persistence, tolerance or resistance. Additionally, the combination of vertical genetic transfer, horizontal genetic transfer and plasmid segregation can lead to unique switch between two states of different bacterial genotypes.
ISSN:1746-0913
1746-0921
DOI:10.2217/fmb-2017-0070