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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 109, Issue 3, Pages 173-178Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2006.01.023
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VTEC; antibiotic resistance tent-1; integrons; gene transfer
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This study compared the antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates (n=257) recovered from bovine hides. minced beef and human clinical samples in Ireland, to those profiles of a range of Irish non-O157 E. coli(O111 and O26) isolates (n=31) from a variety of clinical and veterinary sources. Four multi-drug resistant (MDR) E. coli O157:H7 food isolates were identified, with resistance to 10 (1 isolate), 6 (1 isolate) and 4 (2 isolates) antimicrobial agents, respectively. Two of these isolates (resistant to 7 and 4 antimicrobial classes) were characterised further by molecular methods and found to contain class 1 integrons along with a beta-lactamase-encoding tem-1 gene. Transfer of antimicrobial resistance (ampicillin, streptomycin and sulphonamides), the tem-1 gene and markers (int1, qacE Delta 1, sul1) characteristic of class I integrons were evident in one MDR isolate (resistant to 4 antimicrobial classes) when conjugation and transformation experiments were performed. A clinical isolate and a veterinary isolate of the O111 serotype were MDR and resistant to 4 and 3 antimicrobial classes, respectively. These data suggest that the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among the three VTEC serotypes examined in this study is low. However. these organisms may become a public health risk should they enter the food chain. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.
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