Potential impacts of aquatic pollutants: sub-clinical antibiotic concentrations induce genome changes and promote antibiotic resistance
| Autor: | Louise Chow, Michael R. Gillings, Liette S. Waldron |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Genetics SOS response antibiotic resistance medicine.drug_class Tetracycline Pseudomonas aeruginosa Antibiotics lcsh:QR1-502 microbiome Kanamycin Biology biology.organism_classification medicine.disease_cause Microbiology lcsh:Microbiology Pseudomonas protegens Minimum inhibitory concentration Antibiotic resistance evolution medicine antibiotic pollution Bacteria medicine.drug Original Research |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Microbiology Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 6 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 1664-302X |
| Popis: | Antibiotics are disseminated into aquatic environments via human waste streams and agricultural run-off. Here they can persist at low, but biologically relevant, concentrations. Antibiotic pollution establishes a selection gradient for resistance and may also raise the frequency of events that generate resistance: point mutations; recombination; and lateral gene transfer. This study examined the response of bacteria to sub-inhibitory levels of antibiotics. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pseudomonas protegens were exposed kanamycin, tetracycline or ciprofloxacin at 1/10 the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) in a serial streaking experiment over 40 passages. Significant changes in rep-PCR fingerprints were noted in both species when exposed to sub-inhibitory antibiotic concentrations. These changes were observed in as few as five passages, despite the fact that the protocols used sample less than 0.3% of the genome, in turn suggesting much more widespread alterations to sequence and genome architecture. Experimental lines also displayed variant colony morphologies. The final MICs were significantly higher in some experimental lineages of P. protegens, suggesting that 1/10 the MIC induces de-novo mutation events that generate resistance phenotypes. The implications of these results are clear: exposure of the environmental microbiome to antibiotic pollution will induce similar changes, including generating newly resistant species that may be of significant concern for human health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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