Antibiotic resistance of enterococci and related bacteria in an urban wastewater treatment plant

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 322-329

  Da Silva, Miguel Ferreira ^a   Tiago, Igor ^b   Veríssimo, António ^b   Boaventura, Rui Ar ^c   Nunes, Olga C ^c   Manaia, Célia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Ecology; Enterococci; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

WATER TREATMENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ECOLOGY; ENTEROCOCCUS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEWAGE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE;

EID: 33644955416     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2005.00032.x     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. APHA 1995 Standard Methods for the Examination of Water 19th ed American Public Health Association New York
2. Blanch AR Caplin JL Iversen A Kuhn I Manero A Taylor HD Vilanova X 2003 Comparison of enterococcal populations related to urban and hospital wastewater in various climatic and geographic European regions J Appl Microbiol 94 994 1002
3. Cole JR Chai B Farris RJ Wang Q Kulam SA McGarrell DM Garrity GM Tiedje JM 2005 The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP-II) sequences and tools for high-throughput rRNA analysis Nucleic Acids Res Jan 1 33 Database Issue D294 D296
4. Council Directive 91/271/EEC 1991 Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment. Official Journal of the European Communities, Belgium, 21 May 1991.
5. Devriese L Collins MD Wirth R 1992 The genus Enterococcus The Prokaryotes vol. 2 2nd edn Balows A Truper HG Dworkin M Harder W Schleifer K-H eds), pp. 1466 1481 Springer New York
6. Fluit AC Jones ME Schmitz FJ Acar J Gupta R Verhoef J 2000 Antimicrobial resistance among urinary tract infection (UTI) isolates in Europe results from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program 1997 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 77 147 152
7. George I Crop P Servais P 2002 Fecal coliform removal in wastewater treatment plants studied by plate counts and enzymatic methods Wat Res 36 2607 2617
8. Hall TA 1999 BioEdit a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT Nucleic Acids Symp Ser 41 95 98
9. Hayes JR English LL Carr LE Wagner DD Joseph SW 2004 Multiple-antibiotic resistance of Enterococcus spp. isolated from commercial poultry production environments Appl Environ Microbiol 70 6005 6011
10. Iversen A Kuhn I Franklin A Mollby R 2002 High prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in Swedish sewage Appl Env Microbiol 68 2838 2842
11. Johnston LM Jaykus LA 2004 Antimicrobial resistance of Enterococcus species isolated from produce Appl Environ Microbiol 70 3133 3137
12. Klare I Konstabel C Badstubner D Werner G Witte W 2003 Occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistances in Enterococcus faecium Int J Food Microbiol 88 269 290
13. Klein G 2003 Taxonomy, ecology and antibiotic resistance of enterococci from food and the gastro-intestinal tract Int J Food Microbiol 88 123 131
14. Kuhn I Iversen A Burman LG et al 2000 Epidemiology and ecology of enterococci with special reference to antibiotic resistant strains, in animals, humans and the environment. Example of an ongoing project within the European research programme Int J Antimicrob Agents 14 337 342
15. Kuhn I Iversen A Burman LG et al 2003 Comparison of enterococcal populations in animals, humans, and the environment - a European study Int J Food Microbiol 88 133 145
16. Marcinek H Wirth R Muscholl-Silberhorn A Gauer M 1998 Enterococcus faecalis gene transfer under natural conditions in municipal sewage water treatment plants Appl and Environ Microbiol 64 626 632
17. Mondino SS Castro AC Mondino PJ Carvalho Mda G Silva KM Teixeira LM 2003 Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of clinical and intestinal enterococci isolated from inpatients and outpatients in two Brazilian hospitals Microb Drug Resist 9 167 174
18. Mutnick AH Biedenbach DJ Jones RN 2003 Geographic variations and trends in antimicrobial resistance among Enterococcusfaecalis and Enterococcusfaecium in the SENTRY antimicrobial surveillance program (1997-2000) Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 46 63 68
19. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards 2003 Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Tests; M2-A8. Approved Standard - 8th edn. Wayne, PA.
20. Nayak R Khan SA Watson RH Cerniglia CE 2002 Influence of growth media on vancomycin resistance of Enterococcus isolates and correlation with resistance gene determinants FEMS Microbiol Lett 214 159 163
21. Novais C Coque TM Ferreira H Sousa JC Peixe L 2005 Environmental contamination with vancomycin-resistant enterococci from hospital sewage in Portugal Appl Environ Microbiol 71 3364 3368
22. Observatório Nacional de Saúde 2002 Médicos Sentinela (ONSA)
23. Peters J Mac K Wichmann-Schauer H Klein G Ellerbroek L 2003 Species distribution and antibiotic resistance patterns of enterococci isolated from food of animal origin in Germany Int J Food Microbiol 88 311 314
24. Rainey FA Ward-Rainey N Kroppenstedt RM Stackebrandt E 1996 The genus Nocardiopsis represents a phylogenetically coherent taxon and a distinct actinomycete lineage proposal of Nocardiopsaceae fam. nov Int J Syst Bacteriol 46 1088 1092
25. Renner P Peters J 1999 Resistance of enterococci to heat and chemical agents Zentralbl Hyg Umweltmed 202 41 50
26. Rose JB Dickson LJ Farrah SR Carnahan RP 1996 Removal of pathogenic and indicator microorganisms by a full-scale water reclamation facility Wat Res 30 2785 2797
27. Schwartz T Kohnen W Jansen B Obst U 2004 Detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their resistance genes in wastewater, surface water, and drinking water biofilms FEMS Microbiol Ecol 43 325 335
28. Tiago I Teixeira I Silva S Chung AP Veríssimo A Manaia CM 2004 Metabolic and genetic diversity of mesophilic and thermophilic bacteria isolated from composted municipal sludge on poly-epsilon-caprolactones Curr Microbiol 49 407 414
29. Udo EE Al-Sweih N Phillips OA Chugh TD 2003 Species prevalence and antibacterial resistance of enterococci isolated in Kuwait hospitals J Med Microbiol 52 163 168
30. Volkmann H Schwartz T Bischoff P Kirchen S Obst U 2004 Detection of clinically relevant antibiotic-resistance genes in municipal wastewater using real-time PCR (TaqMan) J Microbiol Methods 56 277 286
31. Witte W 2004 International dissemination of antibiotic resistant strains of bacterial pathogens Infct Genet Evol 4 187 191