Background: It analyzes the evolution of the susceptibility profile to different antibiotics, including daptomycin, of isolates of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis from urinary cultures, together with the consumption of this antibiotic and a systematic review.
Methods: Studies published before 2022 on the genetic profiles of resistance of infection-producing enterococci are reviewed, using the MEDLINE database. Urinary enterococci are described between 2012 and 2021. Information on daptomycin consumption was collected. Its relationship with non-susceptibility was analyzed, and whether the existence of this altered the susceptibility profiles to other antibiotics analyzed.
Results: There is a heterogeneous group of genes that are altered when non-susceptibility to daptomycin occurs, such as the LiaFSR and YycFGHIJ systems and the enzymes Cls and GdpD, mainly involved in the response to stress in the cell membrane and in the control of the concentration of phospholipids in the membrane. It is shown that, in the case of E. faecium, there is a positive correlation between the consumption of daptomycin and the increase in non-susceptible isolates, in the same way that non-susceptibility to daptomycin is associated with alterations in the susceptibility profile of the isolates for some antibiotics, both for E. faecium and for E. faecalis.
Conclusion: After the systematic review carried out, it is concluded that there are genes responsible for the lack of susceptibility to daptomycin. There is a positive correlation between the use of daptomycin and non-susceptibility, the greater the use, the greater the non-susceptibility to the antibiotic. Sensitivity profiles to other antibiotics are associated with non-susceptibility to daptomycin.