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- Title
The Municipal Sewage Discharge May Impact the Dissemination of Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli in an Urban Coastal Beach.
- Authors
Su, Jie; Fan, Jingfeng; Ming, Hongxia; Guo, Ge; Fu, Yunhan; Zhao, Xiaohui; Zhao, Sha; Chen, Quanrui; Guan, Daoming; Jin, Yuan; Shi, Tingting
- Abstract
To determine the potential of the recreational marine environment as a dissemination vector of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms, the dissemination of antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains isolated from an urban coastal beach was studied. Sixty-nine and thirteen E. coli strains were isolated from the seawater and sand, respectively, in Fujiazhuang bathing beach, China. The average Antibacterial Resistance Index (ARI) value detected in the seawater is approximately three times that in beach sand. All the isolates from the sand were grouped into one cluster and only the isolates from the municipal sewage outlet were classified into three antibiogram clusters that were observed in the hetero-sites of the E. coli isolates. The E. coli strains with multiple antibiotic resistance (58% of total) were prevalent in the seawater, whereas the isolates from the sand were not detected with multiple antibiotic resistance. A significant association (p < 0.05) between all phenotypic and relative genotypic resistance profiles was observed in the isolates, except in the quinolones resistance genotype. The presence of a class 1 integron was significantly correlated with the resistance of E. coli to sulfonamides, streptomycin, and levofloxacin (p < 0.01). This study revealed that the municipal sewage discharge may impact the dissemination of antibiotic-resistant strains in the urban coastal beach, and that the class 1 integrons play an important role in mediating the resistance of E. coli to sulfonamide antibiotics.
- Subjects
CHINA; ESCHERICHIA coli; SEWAGE; BEACHES; DRUG resistance in bacteria; INTEGRONS; FECAL contamination; SHORE protection
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 10, p1639
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w14101639