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Resumen El abuso y mal uso de los antimicrobianos aceleró la propagación de bacterias resistentes. La asociación entre las infecciones que presentan resistencia a antimicrobianos (RAM) en humanos y el uso de antimicrobianos en la producción agropecuaria es compleja, pero está bien documentada. Proporcionamos una revisión sistemática y metaanálisis sobre la diseminación de la resistencia a antimicrobianos designados como críticamente importantes por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) en cerdos, aves y bovinos de producción intensiva y extensiva en Argentina. Se buscó información en bases de datos electrónicas (Medline-PubMed, Web of Science, SciELO, Sistema Nacional de Repositorios Digitales de Argentina) y en la literatura gris. Se incluyeron estudios epidemiológicos sobre la RAM en las principales bacterias transmitidas por los alimentos - Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp., Escherichia coli y Enterococcus spp. - y bacterias causantes de mastitis aisladas de cerdos, pollos y bovinos. Los resultados de este estudio apoyan la hipótesis de que la RAM de las bacterias transmitidas por los alimentos alcanza niveles alarmantes. Los metaanálisis seguidos de análisis por subgrupos mostraron asociación entre la RAM y (a) el animal (p<0,01) para estreptomicina, ampicilina y tetraciclina o (b) el sistema productivo (p<0,05) para estreptomicina, cefotaxima, ampicilina, ácido nalidíxico y tetraciclina. La mayor prevalencia conjunta de multirresistencia se detectó en cerdos (0,47 [0,29; 0,66]) y producción intensiva (0,62 [0,34; 0,83]), mientras que la menor correspondió a bovinos de leche (0,056 [0,003; 0,524]) y producción extensiva (0,107 [0,043; 0,240]). Se observó un vacío de información respecto de los bovinos de feedlot. Es urgente adoptar medidas políticas para coordinar y armonizar la vigilancia de la RAM y regular el uso de antimicrobianos en animales.
Abstract Abuse and misuse of antimicrobial agents has accelerated the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. The association between antimicrobial-resistant infections in humans and antimicrobial use in agriculture is complex, but well-documented. This study provides a systematic review and meta-analysis of the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to antimicrobials defined as critically important by the WHO, in swine, chicken, and cattle from intensive and extensive production systems in Argentina. We conducted searches in electronic databases (MEDLINE-PubMed, Web of Science, SciELO, the National System of Digital Repositories from Argentina) as well as in the gray literature. Inclusion criteria were epidemiological studies on AMR in the main food-transmitted bacteria, Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp., Escherichia coli and Enterococcus spp., and mastitis-causing bacteria, isolated from swine, chicken, dairy and beef cattle from Argentina. This study gives evidence for supporting the hypothesis that AMR of common food-transmitted bacteria in Argentina is reaching alarming levels. Meta-analyses followed by subgroup analyses confirmed the association between the prevalence of AMR and (a) animal species (p<0.01) for streptomycin, ampicillin and tetracycline or (b) the animal production system (p<0.05) for streptomycin, cefotaxime, nalidixic acid, ampicillin and tetracycline. Moreover, swine (0.47 [0.29; 0.66]) and intensive production (0.62 [0.34; 0.83]) showed the highest pooled prevalence of multidrug resistance while dairy (0.056 [0.003; 0.524]) and extensive production (0.107 [0.043; 0.240]) showed the lowest. A research gap regarding beef-cattle from feedlot was identified. Finally, there is an urgent need for political measures meant to coordinate and harmonize AMR surveillance and regulate antimicrobial use in animal production.
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Introduction. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia has emerged as one of the most common multi-drug-resistant pathogens isolated from people with cystic fibrosis (CF). However, its adaptation over time to CF lungs has not been fully established.Hypothesis. Sequential isolates of S. maltophilia from a Brazilian adult patient are clonally related and show a pattern of adaptation by loss of virulence factors.Aim. To investigate antimicrobial susceptibility, clonal relatedness, mutation frequency, quorum sensing (QS) and selected virulence factors in sequential S. maltophilia isolates from a Brazilian adult patient attending a CF referral centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between May 2014 and May 2018.Methodology. The antibiotic resistance of 11 S. maltophilia isolates recovered from expectorations of an adult female with CF was determined. Clonal relatedness, mutation frequency, QS variants (RpfC-RpfF), QS autoinducer (DSF) and virulence factors were investigated in eight viable isolates.Results. Seven S. maltophilia isolates were resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and five to levofloxacin. All isolates were susceptible to minocycline. Strong, weak and normomutators were detected, with a tendency to decreased mutation rate over time. XbaI PFGE revealed that seven isolates belong to two related clones. All isolates were RpfC-RpfF1 variants and DSF producers. Only two isolates produced weak biofilms, but none displayed swimming or twitching motility. Four isolates showed proteolytic activity and amplified stmPr1 and stmPr2 genes. Only the first three isolates were siderophore producers. Four isolates showed high resistance to oxidative stress, while the last four showed moderate resistance.Conclusion. The present study shows the long-time persistence of two related S. maltophilia clones in an adult female with CF. During the adaptation of the prevalent clones to the CF lungs over time, we identified a gradual loss of virulence factors that could be associated with the high amounts of DSF produced by the evolved isolates. Further, a decreased mutation rate was observed in the late isolates. The role of all these adaptations over time remains to be elucidated from a clinical perspective, probably focusing on the damage they can cause to CF lungs.
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Fibrose Cística/complicações , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Negativas/microbiologia , Pulmão/microbiologia , Stenotrophomonas maltophilia/genética , Adulto , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Farmacorresistência Bacteriana , Feminino , Genótipo , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Negativas/etiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Mutação , Fenótipo , Filogenia , Escarro/microbiologia , Stenotrophomonas maltophilia/efeitos dos fármacos , Stenotrophomonas maltophilia/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Stenotrophomonas maltophilia/isolamento & purificação , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Imazalil (IMZ) is a widely used fungicide for the post-harvest treatment of citrus, classified as "likely to be carcinogenic in humans" for EPA, that can be only partially removed by conventional biological treatment. Consequently, specific or combined processes should be applied to prevent its release to the environment. Biological treatment with adapted microorganism consortium, photo-Fenton, and coupled biological photo-Fenton processes were tested as alternatives for the purification of water containing high concentration of the fungicide and the coadjutants present in the commercial formulation. IMZ-resistant consortium with the capacity to degrade IMZ in the presence of a C-rich co-substrate was isolated from sludge coming from a fruit packaging company wastewater treatment plant. This consortium was adapted to resist and degrade the organics present in photo-Fenton-oxidized IMZ water solution. Bacteria colonies from the consortia were isolated and identified. The effect of H2O2 initial concentration and dosage on IMZ degradation rate, average oxidation state (AOS), organic acid concentration, oxidation, and mineralization percentage after photo-Fenton process was determined. The application of biological treatment to the oxidized solutions notably decreased the total organic carbon (TOC) in solution. The effect of the oxidation degree, limited by H2O2 concentration and dosage, on the percentage of mineralization obtained after the biological treatment was determined and explained in terms of changes in AOS. The concentration of H2O2 necessary to eliminate IMZ by photo-Fenton and to reduce TOC and chemical oxygen demand (COD) by biological treatment, in order to allow the release of the effluents to rivers with different flows, was estimated.
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Fungicidas Industriais/química , Imidazóis/química , Consórcios Microbianos/fisiologia , Eliminação de Resíduos Líquidos/métodos , Poluentes Químicos da Água/química , Biodegradação Ambiental , Embalagem de Alimentos , Fungicidas Industriais/metabolismo , Fungicidas Industriais/efeitos da radiação , Imidazóis/metabolismo , Imidazóis/efeitos da radiação , Oxirredução , Fotólise , Poluentes Químicos da Água/metabolismo , Poluentes Químicos da Água/efeitos da radiaçãoRESUMO
The accurate species identification of Achromobacter isolates is difficult and the clinical isolates of this genus are mostly referred as A. xylosoxidans. Here, we report new OXA variants in 2 isolates identified as A. insuavis (A114, A79) and 1 isolate identified as A. dolens (A336). These results suggest that different bla OXA genes are ubiquitous in the different species of Achromobacter spp. The role of the other species of Achromobacter in clinical samples needs to be reevaluated, and the proper identification is absolutely necessary to understand the epidemiology of this genus.
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Achromobacter denitrificans/enzimologia , Achromobacter/enzimologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Fibrose Cística/microbiologia , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Negativas/microbiologia , beta-Lactamases/genética , Achromobacter/efeitos dos fármacos , Achromobacter/genética , Achromobacter/isolamento & purificação , Achromobacter denitrificans/efeitos dos fármacos , Achromobacter denitrificans/genética , Achromobacter denitrificans/isolamento & purificação , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/química , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Humanos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Filogenia , Alinhamento de Sequência , beta-Lactamases/química , beta-Lactamases/metabolismoRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Infections caused by Acinetobacter junii are rarely reported. However, some outbreaks of septicemia in neonates and pediatric oncology patients, as well as meningitis, peritonitis, and ocular infection have been described. Since it is highly infrequent to find the molecular characterization of A. junii strains in literature, in this study we described the molecular characterization of A. junii isolates recovered from blood samples of a renal transplant patient. METHODOLOGY: The case was defined as a catheter-related bacteremia caused by A. junii. The patient responded favorably after catheter removal and treatment with ciprofloxacin. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The complete molecular characterization of the isolate showed that it harbored a class 1 integron and diverse DNA mobile elements. This explains its genomic plasticity for acquiring antimicrobial resistance determinants and for adapting to a nosocomial niche.
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Infecções por Acinetobacter/microbiologia , Acinetobacter/genética , Bacteriemia/microbiologia , DNA Bacteriano/genética , Integrons , Sequências Repetitivas Dispersas , Acinetobacter/isolamento & purificação , Infecções por Acinetobacter/tratamento farmacológico , Adulto , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Bacteriemia/tratamento farmacológico , Infecções Relacionadas a Cateter/tratamento farmacológico , Infecções Relacionadas a Cateter/microbiologia , Ciprofloxacina/uso terapêutico , Feminino , Humanos , Transplante de Rim , Transplantados , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
Achromobacter xylosoxidans is increasingly being documented in cystic fibrosis patients. The bla(OXA-114) gene has been recognized as a naturally occurring chromosomal gene, exhibiting different allelic variants. In the population under study, the bla(OXA-114)-like gene was found in 19/19 non-epidemiological-related clinical isolates of A. xylosoxidans with ten different alleles including 1 novel OXA-114 variant.
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Achromobacter/genética , Alelos , Cromossomos Bacterianos , Variação Genética , beta-Lactamases/genética , Achromobacter/classificação , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Humanos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Alinhamento de Sequência , beta-Lactamases/químicaRESUMO
In the last few years, numerous cases of multidrug-resistant Achromobacter xylosoxidans infections have been documented in immunocompromised and cystic fibrosis patients. To gain insights into the molecular mechanisms and mobile elements related to multidrug resistance in this bacterium, we studied 24 non-epidemiological A. xylosoxidans clinical isolates from Argentina. Specific primers for plasmids, transposons, insertion sequences, bla(ampC), intI1, and intI2 genes were used in PCR reactions. The obtained results showed the presence of wide host range IncP plasmids in ten isolates and a high dispersion of class 1 integrons (n = 10) and class 2 integrons (n = 3). Four arrays in the variable region (vr) of class 1 integrons were identified carrying different gene cassettes as the aminoglycoside resistance aac(6')-Ib and aadA1, the trimethoprim resistance dfrA1 and dfrA16, and the ß-lactamase bla(OXA-2). In only one of the class 2 integrons, a vr was amplified that includes sat2-aadA1. The bla(ampC) gene was found in all isolates, confirming its ubiquitous nature. Our results show that A. xylosoxidans clinical isolates contain a rich variety of genetic elements commonly associated with resistance genes and their dissemination. This supports the hypothesis that A. xylosoxidans is becoming a reservoir of horizontal genetic transfer elements commonly involved in spreading antibiotic resistance.
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Achromobacter denitrificans/genética , Achromobacter denitrificans/patogenicidade , Elementos de DNA Transponíveis/genética , Farmacorresistência Bacteriana Múltipla/genética , Transferência Genética Horizontal/genética , Achromobacter denitrificans/efeitos dos fármacos , Achromobacter denitrificans/isolamento & purificação , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Argentina , Infecção Hospitalar/microbiologia , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Negativas/microbiologia , Humanos , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Análise de Sequência de DNARESUMO
La alta frecuencia de diseminación de estos determinantes pone de manifiesto la capacidad de este género para actuar como reservorio y a su vez vector de la resistencia antibiótica
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Resistência Microbiana a Medicamentos , Infecção Hospitalar , Shewanella/classificação , Shewanella/metabolismo , Shewanella/virologiaAssuntos
Infecções por Burkholderia , Complexo Burkholderia cepacia , Fibrose Cística , Escarro/microbiologia , Argentina/epidemiologia , Infecções por Burkholderia/epidemiologia , Infecções por Burkholderia/microbiologia , Complexo Burkholderia cepacia/classificação , Complexo Burkholderia cepacia/genética , Complexo Burkholderia cepacia/isolamento & purificação , Meios de Cultura , Fibrose Cística/epidemiologia , Fibrose Cística/microbiologia , DNA Bacteriano/análise , DNA Bacteriano/isolamento & purificação , Genótipo , Humanos , Fenótipo , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Polimorfismo de Fragmento de Restrição , PrevalênciaRESUMO
Realizamos un estudio molecular en aislamientos de Staphylococcus aureus adquiridos en el ambiente hospitalario de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Se hallaron cuatro clones que albergaban los elementos transponibles Tn4001 y Tn5405 y los determinantes de resistencia a eritromicina, ermA y mef(E). El 73% de los aislamientos pertenecían a un clon hallado previamente en la ciudad de Córdoba con características epidemiológicas atribuidas inicialmente al clon sudamericano ampliamente diseminado en el mundo.