Sato Toyotaka, Uemura Kojiro, Yasuda Mitsuru, Maeda Aiko, Minamoto Toshifumi, Harada Kazuki, Sugiyama Michiyo, Ikushima Shiori, Yokota Shin-Ichi, Horiuchi Motohiro, Takahashi Satoshi, Asai Testuo
Laboratory of Veterinary Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
One Health. 2024 Mar 23;18:100715. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2024.100715. eCollection 2024 Jun.
Transmission of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria among humans, animals, and the environment is a growing concern worldwide. The distribution of an international high-risk fluoroquinolone-resistant clone, ST131, has been documented in clinical settings. However, the transmission of ST131 from humans to surrounding environments remains poorly elucidated. To comprehend the current situation and identify the source of ST131 in nature, we analyzed the genetic features of ST131 isolates from the aquatic environment (lake/river water) and wildlife (fox, raccoon, raccoon dog, and deer) and compared them with the features of isolates from humans in Japan using accessory and core genome single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analyses. We identified ST131 isolates belonging to the same phylotype and genome clusters (four of eight clusters were concomitant) with low SNP distance between the human isolates and those from the aquatic environment and wildlife. These findings warn of ST131 transmission between humans and the surrounding environment in Japan.
抗菌耐药菌在人类、动物和环境之间的传播是全球日益关注的问题。一种国际高风险耐氟喹诺酮克隆株ST131在临床环境中的分布已有记录。然而,ST131从人类传播到周围环境的情况仍不清楚。为了解当前状况并确定自然界中ST131的来源,我们分析了来自水生环境(湖水/河水)和野生动物(狐狸、浣熊、貉和鹿)的ST131分离株的遗传特征,并使用辅助基因组和核心基因组单核苷酸多态性(SNP)分析,将其与日本人类分离株的特征进行比较。我们鉴定出属于同一系统型和基因组簇的ST131分离株(八个簇中的四个是共存的),人类分离株与来自水生环境和野生动物的分离株之间的SNP距离较低。这些发现警示了日本境内人类与周围环境之间存在ST131传播的情况。