1. Antimicrobial Resistance in Wildlife in Guadeloupe (French West Indies): Distribution of a Singlebla(CTX-M-1)/IncI1/ST3 Plasmid Among Humans and Wild Animals
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Stephanie Guyomard-Rabenirina, Yann Reynaud, Matthieu Pot, Emmanuel Albina, David Couvin, Celia Ducat, Gaëlle Gruel, Severine Ferdinand, Pierre Legreneur, Simon Le Hello, Edith Malpote, Syndia Sadikalay, Antoine Talarmin, Sebastien Breurec, Unité Transmission, Réservoir et Diversité des Pathogènes [Pasteur Guadeloupe, France] (TReD-Path), Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Animal, Santé, Territoires, Risques et Ecosystèmes (UMR ASTRE), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Département Systèmes Biologiques (Cirad-BIOS), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité (LIBM ), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU), Bactéries pathogènes entériques (BPE), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), CHU Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes [Guadeloupe], Université des Antilles - UFR des sciences médicales Hyacinthe Bastaraud (UA UFR SM), Université des Antilles (UA), Clinical Investigation and Epidemiology Center, INSERM 802, Guadeloupe, CHU Fattouma Bourguiba [Monastir] (HFB), This work has been supported by a FEDER grant, financed by the European Union and Guadeloupe Region [Programme Operationnel FEDER-Guadeloupe-Conseil Regional 2014-2020, Grant number 2018-FED-1084 (MALIN 2, https://www.projetmalin.fr)].Publisher, European Project: 2015-FED-192,FEDER-Guadeloupe, Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Institut Pasteur [Paris], LESUR, Hélène, and Programme Opérationnel FEDER-Guadeloupe-Conseil Régional 2014-2020 - FEDER-Guadeloupe - 2015-FED-192 - INCOMING
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Microbiology (medical) ,Veterinary medicine ,medicine.drug_class ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Antibiotics ,Cephalosporin ,Wildlife ,lcsh:QR1-502 ,extended-spectrum beta-lactamase ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Microbiology ,lcsh:Microbiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Antibiotic resistance ,Plasmid ,plasmid ,wild animals ,medicine ,Escherichia coli ,antimicrobial resistance ,030304 developmental biology ,West indies ,Original Research ,0303 health sciences ,030306 microbiology ,3. Good health ,[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Carriage - Abstract
Limited data are available on the contribution of wildlife to the spread of antibacterial resistance. We determined the prevalence of resistance to antibiotics in Escherichia coli isolates collected from wild animals in 2013 and 2014 and the genetic basis for resistance to third-generation cephalosporin in Guadeloupe. We recovered 52 antibiotic-resistant (AR) E. coli strains from 48 of the 884 (5.4%) wild animals tested (46 iguanas, 181 birds, 289 anoles, and 368 rodents at 163 sampling sites). Rodents had higher rates of carriage (n = 38, 10.3%) than reptiles and birds (2.4% and 1.1%, respectively, p < 0.001). A significant association (p < 0.001) was found between the degree of anthropization and the frequency of AR E. coli carriage for all species. The carriage rate of ciprofloxacin- and cefotaxime-resistant isolates was 0.7% (6/884) and 1.5% (13/884), respectively. Most (65.4%) AR E. coli were multi-drug resistant, and the prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing E. coli was low (n = 7, 0.8%) in all species. Eight ESBL-producing E. coli were recovered, two genetically unrelated isolates being found in one bird. These isolates and 20 human invasive ESBL E. coli isolates collected in Guadeloupe during the same period were investigated by whole genome sequencing. blaCTX–M–1 was the only ESBL gene shared by three animal classes (humans, n = 2; birds, n = 2; rodents, n = 2). The blaCTX–M–1 gene and most of the antimicrobial resistance genes were present in a large conjugative IncI1 plasmid that was highly similar (>99% nucleotide identity) to ESBL-carrying plasmids found in several countries in Europe and in Australia. Although the prevalence of ESBL-producing E. coli isolates was very low in wild animals, it is of concern that the well-conserved IncI1 plasmid-carrying blaCTX–M–1 is widespread and occurs in various E. coli strains from animals and humans.
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- 2020