Clonal diversity of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli in pigs at slaughter level in Portugal

Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2013 Jan;10(1):74-9. doi: 10.1089/fpd.2012.1173. Epub 2012 Nov 27.

Abstract

We aimed to determine the prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli in fecal samples of healthy pigs, and to evaluate their clonality and associated resistance. Forty-nine percent of pigs sampled (n=35/71) in a slaughterhouse in Portugal revealed ESBL-producing E. coli isolates. Most isolates produced CTX-M-1 enzyme (71.4%; n=25/35), followed by CTX-M-9 (11.4%; n=4/35), CTX-M-14 (5.7%; n=2/35), SHV-12 (5.7%; n=2/35), and CTX-M-32 (5.7%; n=2/35). Ninety-four percent of the isolates presented a phenotype of multi-resistance. Most isolates belonged to phylogroups B1 (42.8%; n=15/35) and A (40%; n=14/35). Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis revealed nine sequence types (STs) under six clonal complexes (CCs) and nine singletons, including overrepresentation of CC10 and three new STs (ST2524, ST2525, ST2528). We observed the frequent presence of CTX-M-producing E. coli in pigs at slaughter level, most of them belonging to CC10, commonly recovered from clinical samples.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Abattoirs
  • Animals
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques
  • Carrier State / microbiology
  • Carrier State / veterinary*
  • Disease Reservoirs / microbiology
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / enzymology
  • Escherichia coli / genetics*
  • Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology
  • Escherichia coli Infections / veterinary*
  • Feces / microbiology
  • Genetic Variation / genetics*
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Multilocus Sequence Typing
  • Phenotype
  • Phylogeny
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Portugal
  • Prevalence
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Swine
  • Swine Diseases / microbiology*
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*
  • beta-Lactamases / metabolism

Substances

  • beta-Lactamases