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RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 166, Issue 7, Pages 584-593Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2015.03.006
Keywords
Wildlife; Fecal samples; Antibiotic resistance; Normalized resistance method; Clinical breakpoint; ECOFF
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- POPH
- European Union [SFRH/BPD/77900/2011]
- European Funds through COMPETE
- Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) [ULD/AMB/50017/2013]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/77900/2011] Funding Source: FCT
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Antibiotic resistance is an emerging global problem. Wild animals are rarely exposed to antibiotics and therefore low levels of antibiotic resistance are expected. However, the growing interactions of these animals with humans and livestock may have a huge impact on their bacterial flora. This study aimed to assess the levels of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from widespread wild ungulates in Portugal. The interpretation of inhibition zone diameters was performed according to clinical breakpoints and epidemiological cut-offs, determined with the normalized resistance interpretation (NRI) method. For clinical breakpoints, 16% of the isolates were resistant to at least one antibiotic, including ampicillin (10%), tetracycline (9%), streptomycin (5%) co-trimoxazole (4%), amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (1%) and cefoxitin (1%). The levels of resistance detected in E. coli strains isolated from wild boar were statistically different for ampicillin and co-trimoxasol. According to NRI cut-offs, 10% of the population showed a non-wild-type phenotype against at least one antibiotic, also including tetracycline (9%), cotrimoxazole (6%), streptomycin (4%), ampicillin (2%) and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (1%). Considering this parameter of comparison, no statistically different levels of resistance were identified between E. coil recovered from the three wild ungulates. Screening of Salmonella spp., which can be potentially pathogenic, was also performed, revealing that its prevalence was very low (1.5%). The study demonstrated that wild ungulates from Portugal are also reservoirs of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. (C) 2015 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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