Institute of Microbiology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
School of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, Institute of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Sci Total Environ. 2021 Sep 15;787:147613. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147613. Epub 2021 May 8.
The recent emergence of mobile-tigecycline resistance tet(X) genes in human and animals in China seriously threats the clinical utility of tigecycline. Here we focused on the isolation and molecular characterization of plasmid-mediated tigecycline resistance tet(X4)-positive E. coli from different sources in Pakistan using MinION and Illumina sequencing. The tet(X4) gene was detected in four E. coli isolates from poultry, chicken meat, wild bird and the slaughterhouse wastewater in Pakistan. Co-existence of colistin resistance mcr-1 gene was also detected in three isolates. The four isolates belonged to different sequence types and the tet(X4) gene was located on plasmids ranging from 12,331 bp to 113,610 bp belonging to IncFII and IncQ replicon types with two genetic contexts ISCR2-tet(X4)-abh-ISCR2-lysR-floR-virD2 and ΔISCR2-abh-tet(X4)-ISCR2-virD2-floR, respectively. In all the four E. coli strains, tet(X4) was transferable by conjugation to E. coli J53 host strain. In addition, three of four strains transferred tet(X4) to a wild-type carbapenem resistant E. coli strain. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the emergence of plasmid-mediated tet(X4) gene from Pakistan. The convergence of tigecycline and colistin resistance in South Asia is a serious threat to human health.
最近,移动型替加环素耐药 tet(X) 基因在中国的人和动物中出现,严重威胁了替加环素的临床应用。在这里,我们使用 MinION 和 Illumina 测序,专注于从巴基斯坦不同来源分离和鉴定质粒介导的替加环素耐药 tet(X4)阳性大肠杆菌。在巴基斯坦的家禽、鸡肉、野生鸟类和屠宰场废水中,从四个大肠杆菌分离株中检测到 tet(X4)基因。在三个分离株中还检测到了多粘菌素耐药 mcr-1 基因。这四个分离株属于不同的序列类型,tet(X4)基因位于质粒上,大小从 12331bp 到 113610bp 不等,属于 IncFII 和 IncQ 复制子类型,具有两种遗传结构 ISCR2-tet(X4)-abh-ISCR2-lysR-floR-virD2 和 ΔISCR2-abh-tet(X4)-ISCR2-virD2-floR。在所有四个大肠杆菌菌株中,tet(X4)可以通过接合转移到大肠杆菌 J53 宿主菌株。此外,四个菌株中有三个可以将 tet(X4)转移到野生型碳青霉烯类耐药大肠杆菌菌株。据我们所知,这是首次从巴基斯坦报告出现质粒介导的 tet(X4)基因。在南亚,替加环素和多粘菌素耐药的趋同是对人类健康的严重威胁。