Potential of saprophage Diptera to acquire culturable livestock-associated antibiotic-resistant bacteria
| Autor: | Davison T Sangweme, V. A. Chittick, Evan C. Lampert, S. M. Russell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Livestock Livestock associated Epidemiology medicine.drug_class 030231 tropical medicine 030106 microbiology Antibiotics Zoology medicine.disease_cause 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Antibiotic resistance stomatognathic system Drug Resistance Bacterial medicine Animals Calliphoridae Larva Bacteria General Veterinary General Immunology and Microbiology biology business.industry Diptera fungi Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health biology.organism_classification Anti-Bacterial Agents Infectious Diseases business Staphylococcus |
| Zdroj: | Zoonoses and Public Health. 65:e216-e221 |
| ISSN: | 1863-1959 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/zph.12431 |
| Popis: | The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance among bacteria is one of the most intractable challenges in 21st-century public health. Dipterans that associate with livestock, livestock waste products and cadavers have the potential to acquire livestock-associated antibiotic-resistant bacteria (LA-ARB) and transmit them to humans. In this study, piglet cadavers were used to attract saprophage dipterans from the environment and those dipterans were sampled for the presence of LA-ARB. In the first trial, culturable microbes resistant to both aminoglycoside and β-lactam antibiotics were found in all cadavers and masses of dipteran larvae, and in three-quarters of adult dipterans. In the second trial, over 130 culturable bacterial colonies resistant to β-lactams were isolated from the cadavers, larval and adult dipterans. Over 100 of those colonies were coliform or metabolically similar bacteria. Adult dipterans carried β-lactam resistant staphylococci, whereas those bacterial types were absent from larval dipterans and cadavers, suggesting they were picked up from elsewhere in the environment. This research indicates that LA-ARB are ubiquitous in pig farms, and dipterans have the potential to carry medically important microbes. Further research is encouraged to determine the extent to which dipterans acquire microbes from animal agriculture relative to other environments. |
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