Analysis of Escherichia coliSTs and resistance mechanisms in sewage from Islamabad, Pakistan indicates a difference in E. coli carriage types between South Asia and Europe

Zahra, Rabaab, Javeed, Saba, Malala, Bibi, Babenko, Dmitriy and Toleman, Mark A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9497-0512 2018. Analysis of Escherichia coliSTs and resistance mechanisms in sewage from Islamabad, Pakistan indicates a difference in E. coli carriage types between South Asia and Europe. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 73 (7) , pp. 1781-1785. 10.1093/jac/dky109

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Abstract

Objectives To discover the Escherichia coli STs and associated resistance mechanisms in the community in Islamabad, Pakistan by analysis of E. coli isolates in sewage. Methods One hundred and ten E. coli were isolated from sewage across the city of Islamabad without antibiotic bias and confirmed as E. coli by MALDI-TOF MS. Isolates were characterized by fumC/fimH (CH) typing and core-genome MLST. Resistance mechanisms, virulence genes, phylotypes and plasmid incompatibility types were determined in a subset of isolates by in silico analysis. The genomic position of blaCTX-M-15 was determined using S1-PFGE, probing and Nanopore MinION sequencing. Results and conclusions The most prevalent STs were ST394, ST10 and ST648, accounting for 39% of all isolates collected and were found at many sites across Islamabad. Carbapenemase genes were absent and only a single isolate of ST131 was found. The most prevalent resistance mechanisms were qnrS1 and blaCTX-M-15, with blaCTX-M-15 penetrating many STs and found in 31% of all collected isolates. However, the majority of the successful STs were blaCTX-M-15 negative indicating that resistance is not the main driver of prevalence. Twenty-three percent of blaCTX-M-15 genes were chromosomally encoded and large ISEcp1-mediated insertions included qnrS1 and several plasmid genes. In all chromosomally encoded isolates no plasmid copies of blaCTX-M-15 were found. The most prevalent ST (ST394) contained many enteroaggregative E. coli virulence genes and the fimH30 variant allele previously linked to the success of ST131.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy B - Oxford Open Option B
ISSN:	0305-7453
Funders:	Commonwealth Fellowship
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 April 2018
Date of Acceptance:	7 March 2018
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 14:43
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/110682

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