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efficacy of 16 antimicrobial drugs against a large collection of β-lactamase-producing isolates of extraintestinal pathogenic from dogs and cats No Access

Abstract

The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of candidate antimicrobials against extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing isolates of extraintestinal pathogenic (ExPEC) from companion animals.

A total of 90 ESBL-producing ExPEC isolates from dogs and cats were tested for susceptibility to 16 antimicrobials with the agar dilution method. We also identified the ESBLs and AmpC β-lactamases of these isolates with PCR and DNA sequencing.

All isolates were susceptible to meropenem, tebipenem and amikacin (AMK), and various proportions were susceptible to latamoxef (LMX, 97.8 %), fosfomycin (FOM, 97.8 %), faropenem (FPM, 96.7 %), nitrofurantoin (NFT, 96.7 %), flomoxef (FMX, 93.3 %), piperacillin/tazobactam (PTZ, 92.2 %), cefmetazole (CMZ, 91.1 %), chloramphenicol (80.0 %), trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (64.4 %), amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (63.3 %), ceftibuten (60.0 %), tetracycline (52.2 %) and enrofloxacin (10.0 %). A genetic analysis showed that 83 of the 90 (92.2 %) isolates were positive for CTX-M-type genes: CTX-M-14 (=26), CTX-M-27 (=20), CTX-M-55 (=17), CTX-M-15 (=12), CTX-M-2 (=5), CTX-M-24 (=2), CTX-M-104 (=2) and CTX-M-3 (=1). Eight isolates also expressed AmpC β-lactamase phenotypes.

This study demonstrates that the susceptibility rates to PTZ, CMZ, LMX, AMK, FOM, FPM, NFT and FMX were similar to those to carbapenems (>90 %), implying that these drugs are available alternatives to carbapenems for the treatment of companion animals infected with ExPEC-producing CTX-M-type ESBLs. Further studies of the effective use of these antimicrobials are required.

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Keyword(s): antimicrobial treatment , companion animals , Escherichia coli and extended-spectrum β-lactamases
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In vitro efficacy of 16 antimicrobial drugs against a large collection of β-lactamase-producing isolates of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli from dogs and cats
J. Med. Microbiol. 66, 1085 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.000535
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