Antimicrobial-resistant enterobacteria in surface waters with fecal contamination from urban and rural communities

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Celular. Salvador, BA, Brasil.
Universidade Federal da Bahia. Faculdade de Farmácia. Salvador, BA, Brasil.
Respiratory institute. Cleveland Clinic. Infectious Diseases Department. Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Celular. Salvador, BA, Brasil.
Mercer University School of Medicine. Department of Medicine. Division of Infectious Diseases. Macon, Georgia, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Celular. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Universidade Federal da Bahia. Faculdade de Medicina. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Yale University. School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Tulane University. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Department of Tropical Medicine. New Orleans, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Celular. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública. Salvador, BA, Brasil.

Abstract

Inadequate wastewater treatment and fecal contamination have a strong environmental impact on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This study evaluated the profile of AMR enterobacteria and fecal contamination from four surface waters: Jiquiriça–Brejões River and Cabrito, Tororó, and Abaeté Lagoons. Methods: We analyzed AMR β-lactamase genes using the polymerase chain reaction method and fecal contamination using Coliscan®. Results: We found high levels of fecal contamination, β-lactamase producers, and AMR genes (blaOXA-48, blaSPM, and blaVIM) in all waterbodies. Conclusions: Poor sanitation evidenced by fecal contamination and human activities around these surface waters contributed to the distribution and increase in AMR enterobacteria.

Keywords in Portuguese

Enterobacteriaceae
Águas superfíciais
Ação antimicrobiana
Poluição Ambiental
Tratamento de Águas Residuárias

Keywords

Fecal contamination
Surface water
Enterobacteria
Antimicrobial resistance
ESBL-producing
Carbapenemase-producing

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Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Citation

MORETTO, Vanessa Tibolla et al. Antimicrobial-resistant enterobacteria in surface waters with fecal contamination from urban and rural communities. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, v. 54, p. e0724-2020, 2021.

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10.1590/0037-8682-0724-2020

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0037-8682

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/46754

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