Changes in antimicrobial susceptibility of native Enterococcus faecium in chickens fed virginiamycin

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 4986-4991

  McDermott, Patrick F ^a   Cullen, Patti ^a   Hubert, Susannah K ^a   McDermott, Shawn D ^a   Bartholomew, Mary ^a   Simjee, Shabbir ^a,b   Wagner, David D ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FOOD PRODUCTS; GENES;

ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; BROILER CHICKENS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACITRACIN; BAMBERMYCIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFOXITIN; CEFTIOFUR; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; LINEZOLID; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SALINOMYCIN; STREPTOGRAMIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TYLOSIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS RESISTANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ERM GENE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MSR GENE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VAT GENE; VGB GENE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHICKENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STREPTOGRAMINS; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 25144473899     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.9.4986-4991.2005     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Cocito, C., M. Di Giambattista, E. Nyssen, and P. Vannuffel. 1997. Inhibition of protein synthesis by streptogramins and related antibiotics. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 39(Suppl. A):7-13.
2. Cox, L. A., Jr., and D. A. Popken. 2004. Quantifying human health risks from virginiamycin used in chickens. Risk Anal. 24:271-288.
3. Donabedian, S., M. B. Perri, P. S. Bozigar, E. Hershberger, F. J. Angulo, S. Rossiter, R. Jones, E. DeBess, S. Johnson, M. Park, J. Johnson, and M. J. Zervos. 2001. Quinupristin-dalfopristin resistance in Enterccoccus faecium isolated from humans, farm animals and retail food, abstr. C2-1872, p. 139. Abstr. 41st Intersci. Conf. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.
4. Eliopoulos, G. M. 2003. Quinupristin-dalfopristin and linezolid: evidence and opinion. Clin. Infect. Dis. 36:473-481.
5. Hammerum, A. M., L. B. Jensen, and F. M. Aarestrup. 1998. Detection of the satA gene and transferability of virginiamycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium from food-animals. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 168:145-151.
6. Hayes, J. R., L. L. English, P. J. Carter, T. Proescholdt, K. Y. Lee, D. D. Wagner, and D. G. White. 2003. Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of enterococcus species isolated from retail meats. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69:7153-7160.
7. Hayes, J. R., A. C. McIntosh, S. Qaiyumi, J. A. Johnson, L. L. English, L. E. Carr, D. D. Wagner, and S. W. Joseph. 2001. High-frequency recovery of quinupristin-dalfopristin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates from the poultry production environment. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:2298-2299.
8. Hayes, J. R., D. D. Wagner, L. L. English, L. E. Carr, and S. W. Joseph. 2003. Relative absence of known streptogramin resistance determinants among Enterococcus faecium from U.S. poultry production environment abstr. C2-84, p. 115. Abstr. 43rd Intersci. Conf. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
9. Henney, J. E. 1999. From the Food and Drug Administration. JAMA 282:1613.
10. Hershberger, E., S. Donabedian, K. Konstantinou, and M. J. Zervos. 2004. Quinupristin-dalfopristin resistance in gram-positive bacteria: mechanism of resistance and epidemiology. Clin. Infect. Dis. 38:92-98.
11. Jacobsen, B. L., M. Skou, A. M. Hammerum, and L. B. Jensen. 1999. Horizontal transfer of the satA gene encoding streptogramin A resistance between isogenic Enterococcus faecium strains in the gastrointestinal tract of gnotobiotic rats. Microb. Ecol. Health Dis. 11:241-247.
12. Leclercq, R., E. Derlot, J. Duval, and P. Courvalin. 1988. Plasmid-mediated resistance to vancomycin and teicoplanin in Enterococcus faecium. N. Engl. J. Med. 319:157-161.
13. McDonald, L. C., S. Rossiter, C. Mackinson, Y. Y. Wang, S. Johnson, M. Sullivan, R. Sokolow, E. DeBess, L. Gilbert, J. A. Benson, B. Hill, and F. J. Angulo. 2001. Quinupristin-dalfopristin-resistant Enterococcus faecium on chicken and in human stool specimens. N. Engl. J. Med. 345:1155-1160.
14. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. 2004. Performance standards for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Fourteenth informational supplement, M100-S14. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, Wayne, Pa.
15. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System. 2004. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System report, data summary from January 1992 through June 2003, issued August 2003. Am. J. Infect. Control 31:481-498.
16. Perri, M. B., S. Donabedian, E. Hershberger, and M. J. Zervos. 2002. A unique human isolate with the gene conferring vat(E)-mediated quinupristin-dalfopristin resistance in enterococcis, p. 100. Abstr. 42nd Intersci. Conf. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
17. Rende-Fournier, R., R. Leclercq, M. Galimand, J. Duval, and P. Courvalin. 1993. Identification of the satA gene encoding a streptogramin A acetyltransferase in Enterococcus faecium BM4145. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 37:2119-2125.
18. Ricks, C. A., A. Avakian, T. Bryan, R. Gildersleeve, E. Haddad, R. Ilich, S. King, L. Murray, P. Phelps, R. Poston, C. Whitfill, and C. Williams. 1999. In ovo vaccination technology. Adv. Vet. Med. 41:495-515.
19. Simjee, S., D. G. White, J. Meng, D. D. Wagner, S. Qaiyumi, S. Zhao, J. R. Hayes, and P. F. McDermott. 2002. Prevalence of streptogramin resistance genes among Enterococcus isolates recovered from retail meats in the Greater Washington DC area. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 50:877-882.
20. Smith, D. L, J. A. Johnson, A. D. Harris, J. P. Furuno, E. N. Perencevich, and J. G. Morris, Jr. 2003. Assessing risks for a pre-emergent pathogen: virginiamycin use and the emergence of streptogramin resistance in Enterococcus faecium. Lancet Infect. Dis. 3:241-249.
21. Uttley, A. H., C. H. Collins, J. Naidoo, and R. C. George. 1988. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Lancet 1:57-58.
22. Welton, L. A., L. A. Thal, M. B. Perri, S. Donabedian, J. McMahon, J. W. Chow, and M. J. Zervos. 1998. Antimicrobial resistance in enterococci isolated from turkey flocks fed virginiamycin. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 42:705-708.
23. Werner, G., B. Hildebrandt, and W. Witte. 2001. The newly described msrC gene is not equally distributed among all isolates of Enterococcus faecium. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 45:3672-3673.
24. Werner, G., and W. Witte. 1999. Characterization of a new enterococcal gene, satG, encoding a putative acetyltransferase conferring resistance to streptogramin A compounds. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 43:1813-1814.