Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of colistin-resistant Escherichia Coli with mcr-4, mcr-5, mcr-6, and mcr-9 genes from broiler chicken and farm environment.

Autor: Lemlem M; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 16100, Malaysia. mulu.lemlem@mu.edu.et.; Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Health Science, Mekelle University, 231, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia. mulu.lemlem@mu.edu.et., Aklilu E; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 16100, Malaysia. erkihun@umk.edu.my., Mohamed M; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 16100, Malaysia., Kamaruzzaman NF; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 16100, Malaysia., Zakaria Z; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, 43400, Malaysia., Harun A; School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 15200, Malaysia., Devan SS; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 16100, Malaysia., Kamaruzaman INA; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 16100, Malaysia., Reduan MFH; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 16100, Malaysia., Saravanan M; AMR and Nanotherapeutics Lab, Department of Pharmacology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Chennai, 600077, India.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC microbiology [BMC Microbiol] 2023 Dec 08; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 392. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 08.
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-023-03118-y
Abstrakt: Background: Colistin is an antibiotic used as a last-resort to treat multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. Colistin had been used for a long time in veterinary medicine for disease control and as a growth promoter in food-producing animals. This excessive use of colistin in food animals causes an increase in colistin resistance. This study aimed to determine molecular characteristics of colistin-resistant Escherichia coli in broiler chicken and chicken farm environments.
Results: Four hundred fifty-three cloacal and farm environment samples were collected from six different commercial chicken farms in Kelantan, Malaysia. E. coli was isolated using standard bacteriological methods, and the isolates were tested for antimicrobial susceptibility using disc diffusion and colistin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) by broth microdilution. Multiplex PCR was used to detect mcr genes, and DNA sequencing was used to confirm the resistance genes. Virulence gene detection, phylogroup, and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) were done to further characterize the E. coli isolates. Out of the 425 (94%; 425/453) E. coli isolated from the chicken and farm environment samples, 10.8% (48/425) isolates were carrying one or more colistin-resistance encoding genes. Of the 48 colistin-resistant isolates, 54.2% (26/48) of the mcr positive isolates were genotypically and phenotypically resistant to colistin with MIC of colistin ≥ 4 μg/ml. The most prominent mcr gene detected was mcr-1 (47.9%; 23/48), followed by mcr-8 (18.8%; 9/48), mcr-7 (14.5%; 7/48), mcr-6 (12.5%; 6/48), mcr-4 (2.1%; 1/48), mcr-5 (2.1%; 1/48), and mcr-9 (2.1%; 1/48) genes. One E. coli isolate originating from the fecal sample was found to harbor both mcr-4 and mcr-6 genes and another isolate from the drinking water sample was carrying mcr-1 and mcr-8 genes. The majority of the mcr positive isolates were categorized under phylogroup A followed by phylogroup B1. The most prevalent sequence typing (ST) was ST1771 (n = 4) followed by ST206 (n = 3). 100% of the mcr positive E. coli isolates were multidrug resistant. The most frequently detected virulence genes among mcr positive E. coli isolates were ast (38%; 18/48) followed by iss (23%; 11/48). This is the first research to report the prevalence of mcr-4, mcr-5, mcr-6, mcr-7, and mcr-8 genes in E. coli from broiler chickens and farm environments in Malaysia.
Conclusion: Our findings suggest that broiler chickens and broiler farm environments could be reservoirs of colistin-resistant E. coli, posing a risk to public health and food safety.
(© 2023. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
Externí odkaz:
Nepřihlášeným uživatelům se plný text nezobrazuje