Journal
VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 168, Issue 1, Pages 221-224Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2013.09.033
Keywords
E. coli; ESBL; bla(CTX-M-15); Antibiotic resistance; Pigeon
Categories
Funding
- Swedish Institute [00559/2008]
- Marcus Borgstrom Foundation
- Lindahls Ester Foundation
- Lundells PO foundation
- Bergmark Foundation
- Olle Engkvist Byggmastare Foundation
- Medical Faculty of Uppsala University
- BioMerieux
- MAST Group Limited
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Antibiotic resistance and ESBL constitute a risk to human and animal health. Birds residing close to humans could mirror the spectrum of human associated antibiotic resistance. Household pigeons were screened in Bangladesh to shed light on human associated, as well as, environmental antibiotic resistance. Escherichia coli from pigeons (n = 150) were tested against 11 antibiotics. 89% E. coli isolates were resistant to one or more critically important human antibiotics like ampicillin, cefadroxil, mecillinam, ciprofloxacin, gentamicin and tigecycline. No carbapenamase-producers were detected and the lower ESBL prevalence (5%) in pigeons. ESBL-producing E. coli isolates had bla(CTX-M_15) genes. Pigeons shared some bacterial clones and had bird associated sequence types like E. coli ST1408. Fecal carriage of bacteria resistance of critically important human antibiotics, together with examples of shared genotypes among pigeons, indicate the human-birds and bird to bird transmissions are important in the epidemiology of antibiotic resistance. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available