期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
卷 297, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.118800
关键词
CRE; Well water; bla NDM; IncX3 plasmid; Whole-genome sequencing
资金
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2020YFC1806904]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81972995]
- Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) [2016-00640]
- Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) [CH2016-6707]
- Formas [2016-00640] Funding Source: Formas
The emergence and dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is a major global health problem. This study investigates the occurrence and environmental transmission of CRE in groundwater in large animal breeding areas in northern China, suggesting that groundwater may be an underappreciated reservoir and source of CRE dissemination.
The emergence and dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) constitute a major global health problem. The environment plays an important role in the dissemination of CRE, but large-scale studies on CRE in groundwater environments in animal breeding areas are scarce. The aim of this study was to investigate CRE occurrence and environmental transmission of carbapenem resistance genes in large animal breeding areas in northern China. In total, 280 well water and 102 animal feces samples in large animal breeding areas in six counties from the two provinces Inner Mongolia and Shandong in China, were screened for CRE. A total of 39 CRE were isolated and characterized with next-generation sequencing. 5.3% of well water samples were contaminated with CRE. The well water in chicken farms had the highest number of detections of CRE (15.9%). More than half of the isolates carried closely related, conjugative IncX3 plasmids with blaNDM-genes from multiple geographic areas, indicating that this kind of plasmid plays an important role in dissemination of carbapenem resistance determinants. The clonal expansion of various CRE isolates in well water and animal feces were demonstrated; clonally related CRE were isolated from different wells within the same county, from different counties in the same province, and even from different provinces. In addition to harboring various ARGs, two closely related K. pneumoniae belonging to ST11 isolated from well water carried genetic hypervirulence determinants on a virulence plasmid, highlighting the potential health risk posed by further dissemination of this strain. These findings suggest that groundwater may be an underappreciated reservoir and source of dissemination of CRE, from which resistance genes may disseminate among different bacterial strains and over large geographic distances. Further research and multi-sectorial monitoring, with a One health perspective, is urgently needed to investigate the need for interventions aimed at preventing CRE dissemination.
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