Lanz, Roland; Kuhnert, Peter; Boerlin, Patrick (2003). Antimicrobial resistance and resistance gene determinants in clinical Escherichia coli from different animal species in Switzerland. Veterinary microbiology, 91(1), pp. 73-84. Amsterdam: Elsevier 10.1016/S0378-1135(02)00263-8
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Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed on a total of 581 clinical Escherichia coli isolates from diarrhea and edema disease in pigs, from acute mastitis in dairy cattle, from urinary tract infections in dogs and cats, and from septicemia in laying hens collected in Switzerland between 1999 and 2001. Among the 16 antimicrobial agents tested, resistance was most frequent for sulfonamides, tetracycline, and streptomycin. Isolates from swine presented significantly more resistance than those from the other animal species. The distribution of the resistance determinants for sulfonamides, tetracycline, and streptomycin was assessed by hybridization and PCR in resistant isolates. Significant differences in the distribution of resistance determinants for tetracycline (tetA, tetB) and sulfonamides (sulII) were observed between the isolates from swine and those from the other species. Resistance to sulfonamides could not be explained by known resistance mechanisms in more than a quarter of the sulfonamide-resistant and sulfonamide-intermediate isolates from swine, dogs and cats. This finding suggests that one or several new resistance mechanisms for sulfonamides may be widespread among E. coli isolates from these animal species. The integrase gene (intI) from class I integrons was detected in a large proportion of resistant isolates in association with the sulI and aadA genes, thus demonstrating the importance of integrons in the epidemiology of resistance in clinical E. coli isolates from animals.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) > Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Kuhnert, Peter |
Subjects: |
500 Science 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology 600 Technology > 630 Agriculture |
ISSN: |
0378-1135 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Peter Kuhnert-Ryser |
Date Deposited: |
24 Jan 2014 08:50 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:26 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/S0378-1135(02)00263-8 |
PubMed ID: |
12441233 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Escherichia coli, Antimicrobial resistance, Sulfonamide, Streptomycin, Tetracycline, Integron |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.39126 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/39126 |
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