Baseline screening for the presence of antimicrobial resistance in E. coli isolated from Kuwait's marine environment
| Autor: | Awadhesh N. Jha, Craig Baker-Austin, Brett P. Lyons, Hanan A. Al-Sarawi, Mohammad A. Al-Sarawi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Veterinary medicine medicine.drug_class 030106 microbiology Antibiotics Microbial Sensitivity Tests 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science Oceanography 01 natural sciences Microbiology 03 medical and health sciences Antibiotic resistance Ampicillin Water Quality Drug Resistance Bacterial medicine Escherichia coli Animals Humans Seawater 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Resistance (ecology) biology Biota biology.organism_classification Pollution Anti-Bacterial Agents Bivalvia Kuwait Water quality Bacteria medicine.drug Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Marine pollution bulletin. 129(2) |
| ISSN: | 1879-3363 |
| Popis: | Here we present the findings of a study where 598 isolates of Escherichia coli (351 derived from seawater; 247 derived from the Venus clam, Circenita callipyga) were obtained from Kuwait's marine environment. Isolates were screened for their potential resistance to an array of 23 commonly deployed frontline antibiotics. Results demonstrate the resistant was widespread across all sites with high-levels of resistance (seawater: summer 89–64%; winter 90–57% and biota: summer 77%; winter 88%) observed to at least 1 of the 23 antibiotics tested. Resistance to Ampicillin was by far the most widely observed profile in seawater and biota across both summer and winter seasons, with 55.9 to 70.9% isolates displaying resistance to this antibiotic. This study demonstrates the potential of AMR screening to be used in Kuwait to detect issues related to water quality and the consequences it may pose for human health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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