期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 754, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142141
关键词
Anthropization; Antibiotic; mcr-1; Migratory birds; Pristine environment; Wildlife
资金
- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
- Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) [304999-18]
- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2016/20956-0, 2018/25885-9, 2018/25069-7]
- American Association of Zoo Veterinarians' Wild Animal Health Fund
- Morris Animal Foundation [D18ZO-820]
The study revealed the presence of multiple antimicrobial resistance genes in the gastrointestinal microbiome of seabirds, with tetracycline resistance genes being the most prevalent. The prevalence of sulfonamide and quinolone resistance genes was higher in anthropized habitats. Migratory species showed higher prevalence of polymyxins and betalactam resistance genes compared to non-migratory species.
Antimicrobial resistance is a quintessential One Health issue, among the most serious 21st century global threats to human health. Seabirds may act as sentinels of natural and anthropogenic changes in the marine ecosystem health, including pollution by antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs). We used real time PCR to identify and quantify 22 plasmid-mediated ARGs in the gastrointestinal microbiome of six wild seabird species, comparing an anthropized (Fernando de Noronha Archipelago - FNA) and a pristine biotope (Rocas Atoll - ROA), Brazil. Of 257 birds, 218 (84.8%) were positive to at least one ARG. ARG classes encoding resistance to tetracyclines (75.1%), quinolones (10.5%) and phenicols (10.5%) were the most prevalent, with tetracyclines significantly greater than the remaining classes (p < 0.05). Genes tet(S) (29.2%), tet(A) (28.8%), and tet(B) (24.9%) were the most commonly found and had a significantly greater prevalence when compared to the remaining ARGs (p < 0.05). The anthropized biotope presented statistically significant higher prevalence of sulfonamide- and quinolone-encoding ARGs in comparison with the pristine (respectively, p = 0.01and p = 0.03), and higher sulII gene prevalence (p = 0.04), consistent with anthropogenic pressure. Migratory species (only present in ROA) showed statistically significant higher mcr-1 (polymyxins) and bla(TEM) (betalactam) prevalences (respectively, p = 0.009 and p = 0.02), and mcr-1 percentage load (p = 0.0079) in comparison with non-migratory. To our knowledge, this is the largest ARGs survey based on direct detection and quantification in seabirds worldwide, and the first to evaluate non-synanthropic species in oceanic islands. This is the first detection of mcr-1 in wild free-ranging seabirds in Brazil and in free-ranging migratory non-synanthropic seabirds worldwide. Our findings show the importance of biological and ecological factors, highlighting the role of seabirds as anthropization sentinels and ARGs-pollution environmental indicators (even in a pristine biotope), and their involvement in the One Health epidemiological chain of ARGs. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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