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Leopold, M; Kabicher, A; Pap, IJ; Ströbele, B; Zarfel, G; Farnleitner, AH; Kirschner, AKT.
A comparative study on antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli isolates from Austrian patients and wastewater-influenced Danube River water and biofilms.
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2024; 258:114361
Doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114361
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- Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health worldwide. AMR can be introduced into natural aquatic ecosystems, for example, from clinical facilities via wastewater emissions. Understanding AMR patterns in environmental populations of bacterial pathogens is important to elucidate propagation routes and develop mitigation strategies. In this study, AMR patterns of Escherichia coli isolates from urinary tract infections and colonised urinary catheters of inpatients and outpatients were compared to isolates from the Danube River within the same catchment in Austria to potentially link environmental with clinical resistance patterns. Susceptibility to 20 antibiotics was tested for 697 patient, 489 water and 440 biofilm isolates. The resistance ratios in patient isolates were significantly higher than in the environmental isolates and higher resistance ratios were found in biofilm in comparison to water isolates. The role of the biofilm as potential sink of resistances was reflected by two extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing isolates in the biofilm while none were found in water, and by higher amoxicillin/clavulanic acid resistance ratios in biofilm compared to patient isolates. Although, resistances to last-line antibiotics such as carbapenems and tigecycline were found in the patient and in the environmental isolates, they still occurred at low frequency.
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- Humans - administration & dosage
- Escherichia coli - administration & dosage
- Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology
- Wastewater - administration & dosage
- Austria - administration & dosage
- Rivers - microbiology
- Ecosystem - administration & dosage
- beta-Lactamases - administration & dosage
- Water - administration & dosage
- Biofilms - administration & dosage
- Escherichia coli Infections - microbiology
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests - administration & dosage
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- Escherichia coli
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Danube river
- Urinary tract infection