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High occurrence of CMY-2-type beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli among broiler flocks in Turkey

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In this study, the prevalence of ESBL/pAmpC-producing Escherichia coli and their molecular characterization from cloacal swab samples were investigated. All samples were obtained from broiler flocks that are located in Hatay, Adana, and Mersin provinces of Turkey. Antimicrobial susceptibilities of the isolates were determined by disk diffusion method following the CLSI criteria. Genetic mechanisms mediating resistance in ESBL/pAmpC-producing E. coli isolates were identified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and followed by DNA sequencing. Phylogenetic groups and plasmid replicon types of the isolates were also investigated by PCR. The clonal relationship of selected isolates was investigated by enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-PCR and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) method. Of 430 cloacal swab samples, 154 (35.8%) were positive for ESBL/pAmpC-producing E. coli. The ESBL/pAmpC type beta-lactamases were as follows: CMY-2 (n = 46), CMY-2 + TEM-1b (n = 63), SHV-12 (n = 5), SHV-12 + TEM-1b (n = 12), CTX-M-3 (n = 14), CTX-M-3 + TEM-1b (n = 1), CTX-M-15 (n = 4), CTX-M-15 + TEM-1b (n = 4), and CTX-M-1 (n = 3). Moreover, various rates of resistance to different antimicrobials were determined such as nalidixic acid (92.9%), ciprofloxacin (76%), sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim (78.6%), tetracycline (73.4%), streptomycin (52.6%), chloramphenicol (44.2%), kanamycin (27.9%), tobramycin (24.7%), gentamicin (19.5%), and amikacin (0.6%). Furthermore, 148 (96.1%) isolates were found to be MDR. The ESBL/pAmpC-producing isolates were distributed into the following phylogroups: E (n = 61), B1 (n = 30), F (n = 20), A (n = 19), B2 (n = 11), D (n = 10), and C (n = 3). ERIC-PCR analysis showed 51 unrelated patterns. Out of the 28 selected isolates, the following sequence types (STs) were detected: ST354 (n = 3), ST114 (n = 3), ST5696 (n = 2), ST156 (n = 2), ST174 (n = 2), ST362 (n = 2), ST157 (n = 2), ST5114 (n = 2), ST6635, ST539, ST457, ST1640, ST95, ST5843, ST1158, ST10, ST648, and ST4248. The results of the current study revealed that broilers in Turkey are important reservoir of ESBL/pAmpC-producing E. coli, which suggest that these agents have a great potential of transmission to humans by food chain or direct contact.

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Aslantaş, Ö. High occurrence of CMY-2-type beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli among broiler flocks in Turkey. Trop Anim Health Prod 52, 1681–1689 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-019-02167-8

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