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Environmental waters as a source of antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus species in Belgrade, Serbia

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Title
Environmental waters as a source of antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus species in Belgrade, Serbia
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, August 2015
DOI 10.1007/s10661-015-4814-x
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Katarina Veljović, Nikola Popović, Amarela Terzić Vidojević, Maja Tolinački, Sanja Mihajlović, Branko Jovčić, Milan Kojić

Abstract

Despite the number of studies on antibiotic-resistant enterococci from Serbian clinical settings, there are no data about environmental contamination with these bacteria. Thus, this study investigated the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant enterococci in Belgrade, Serbia. Enterococcus species collected from ten surface water sites, including a lake, two major river systems, and springs, were tested. Among enterococci, we found single (21.7 %), double (17.4 %), and multiple antibiotic resistance patterns (56.3 %). Vancomycin-resistant strains were not found, indicating that their abundance in Belgrade is tightly linked to clinical settings. The multiple drug-resistant strains Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, and Enterococcus mundtii were frequently detected in the lake during the swimming season and in the rivers near industrial zones. We confirmed the presence of ermB, ermC, ant(6)-Ia, tetM, and tetL and mutations in gyrA genes. The phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene of E. faecium isolates that harbor esp gene classified them into two groups based on high-bootstraps scores in the tree analysis. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of antibiotic-resistant enterococci revealed genomic similarity ranging from 75 to 100 %. This study indicates the importance of anthropogenic impact to the spread of antibiotic-resistant enterococci in environmental waters of Belgrade, Serbia.

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Country Count As %
Mexico 1 2%
Unknown 44 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 16%
Researcher 6 13%
Student > Bachelor 5 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 15 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 7%
Environmental Science 2 4%
Other 7 16%
Unknown 19 42%
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