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PHARMACEUTICALS
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ph14060533
Keywords
microbiome; beta-lactams; beta-lactamases; resistome
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- National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) Mexico through the Sectoral Fund for Research in Health and Social Security (FOSISS) [2012/SSA/IMSS/ISSSTE-CONACYT/000000000181384]
- CICSA of Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universidad Anahuac Mexico Project [201917]
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The study found that the human enteric microbiota in healthy individuals contains genes for resistance to beta-lactamases, which can be transferred to pathogenic bacteria.
Antibiotic resistance is a major health problem worldwide, causing more deaths than diabetes and cancer. The dissemination of vertical and horizontal antibiotic resistance genes has been conducted for a selection of pan-resistant bacteria. Here, we test if the aerobic and anaerobic bacteria from human feces samples in health conditions are carriers of beta-lactamases genes. The samples were cultured in a brain-heart infusion medium and subcultured in blood agar in aerobic and anaerobic conditions for 24 h at 37 degrees C. The grown colonies were identified by their biochemical profiles. The DNA was extracted and purified by bacterial lysis using thermal shock and were used in the endpoint PCR and next generation sequencing to identify beta-lactamase genes expression (OXA, VIM, SHV, TEM, IMP, ROB, KPC, CMY, DHA, P, CFX, LAP, and BIL). The aerobic bacterias Aeromonas hydrophila, Citrobacter freundii, Proteus mirabilis, Providencia rettgeri, Serratia fonticola, Serratia liquefaciens, Enterobacter aerogenes, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pantoea agglomerans, Enterococcus faecalis, and Enterobacter cloacae, the anaerobic bacteria: Capnocytophaga species, Bacteroides distasonis, Bifidobacterium adolescentis, Bacteroides ovatus, Bacteroides fragilis, Eubacterium species, Eubacterium aerofaciens, Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, Fusobacterium species, Bacteroides species, and Bacteroides vulgatus were isolated and identified. The results showed 49 strains resistant to beta-lactam with the expression of blaSHV (10.2%), blaTEM (100%), blaKPC (10.2%), blaCYM (14.3%), blaP (2%), blaCFX (8.2%), and blaBIL (6.1%). These data support the idea that the human enteric microbiota constitutes an important reservoir of genes for resistance to beta-lactamases and that such genes could be transferred to pathogenic bacteria.
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