Recovery of Pseudomonas aeruginosa culturability following copper- and chlorine-induced stress

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 356, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 226-234

  Bédard, Emilie ^a,b   Charron, Dominique ^b   Lalancette, Cindy ^a   Déziel, Eric ^a   Prévost, Michèle ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Hospital; Internal plumbing; Opportunistic pathogen; Viable but nonculturable

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE ION; COPPER ION; COPPER SULFATE; CHLORINE; COPPER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CHELATION; CHLORINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

CHLORINE; COPPER; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84904805027     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12494     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. American Public Health Association (APHA), American Water Works Association (AWWA) & Water Environment Federation (WEF) (2012) Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. American Public Health Association, Washington, DC.
2. Behnke S, Parker AE, Woodall D & Camper AK (2011) Comparing the chlorine disinfection of detached biofilm clusters with sessile biofilms and planktonic cells in single and dual species cultures. Appl Environ Microbiol 77: 7176-7184.
3. Berney M, Hammes F, Bosshard F, Weilenmann HU & Egli T (2007) Assessment and interpretation of bacterial viability by using the LIVE/DEAD BacLight kit in combination with flow cytometry. Appl Environ Microbiol 73: 3283-3290.
4. ® BacLight™: application of a new rapid staining method for direct enumeration of viable and total bacteria in drinking water. J Microbiol Methods 37: 77-86.
5. California Environmental Protection Agency, Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch & Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (2008) Public Health Goals for Copper in Drinking Water. California Environmental Protection Agency, Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology Branch & Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California.
6. Chaberny IF & Gastmeier P (2004) Should electronic faucets be recommended in hospitals? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 25: 997-1000.
7. Critchley MM, Cromar NJ, McClure N & Fallowfield HJ (2001) Biofilms and microbially influenced cuprosolvency in domestic copper plumbing systems. J Appl Microbiol 91: 646-651.
8. Department of Health (DH), Government of Great Britain (2013) Water systems: HTM 04-01: Addendum. Pseudomonas aeruginosa - advice for augmented care units.
9. Durojaiye OC, Carbarns N, Murray S & Majumdar S (2011) Outbreak of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in an intensive care unit. J Hosp Infect 78: 154-155.
10. Dwidjosiswojo Z, Richard J, Moritz MM, Dopp E, Flemming H-C & Wingender J (2011) Influence of copper ions on the viability and cytotoxicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa under conditions relevant to drinking water environments. Int J Hyg Environ Health 214: 485-492.
11. Ehrhardt D, Terashita D & English T (2006) An outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in neonatal intensive care unit, Los Angeles County, 2006. Acute communicable disease control program, Special Studies Report.
12. Elguindi J, Wagner J & Rensing C (2009) Genes involved in copper resistance influence survival of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on copper surfaces. J Appl Microbiol 106: 1448-1455.
13. Emerson J, Rosenfeld M, McNamara S, Ramsey BW & Gibson RL (2002) Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other predictors of mortality and morbidity in young children with cystic fibrosis. Pediatr Pulmonol 34: 91-100.
14. Exner M (2012) Wasser als Infektionsquelle: Leitungswasser: Klar und sauber? Heilberufe 64: 24-27.
15. Ferroni A, Nguyen L, Pron B, Quesne G, Brusset M-C & Berche P (1998) Outbreak of nosocomial urinary tract infections due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a paediatric surgical unit associated with tap-water contamination. J Hosp Infect 39: 301-307.
16. Harrison JJ, Turner RJ & Ceri H (2005) Persister cells, the biofilm matrix and tolerance to metal cations in biofilm and planktonic Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Environ Microbiol 7: 981-994.
17. Hota S, Hirji Z, Stockton K, Lemieux C, Dedier H, Wolfaardt G & Gardam MA (2009) Outbreak of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization and infection secondary to imperfect intensive care unit room design. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30: 25-33.
18. Huang H-I, Shih H-Y, Lee C-M, Yang TC, Lay J-J & Lin YE (2008) In vitro efficacy of copper and silver ions in eradicating Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Acinetobacter baumannii: implications for on-site disinfection for hospital infection control. Water Res 42: 73-80.
19. Idexx Laboratories (2010a) Comparison of the performance of the IDEXX Pseudalert* test against the EN ISO 16266:2008 method at recovering confirmed Pseudomonas aeruginosa from pool/spa water samples.
20. Idexx Laboratories (2010b) Comparison of the performance of the IDEXX Pseudalert test against SM 9213E at recovering confirmed Pseudomonas aeruginosa from pool/spa water samples.
21. International Standards Organization (2006) ISO 16266:2006 Water quality - Detection and enumeration of Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Method by membrane filtration.
22. Kerr KG & Snelling AM (2009) Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a formidable and ever-present adversary. J Hosp Infect 73: 338-344.
23. Lee DG, Urbach JM, Wu G et al. (2006) Genomic analysis reveals that Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence is combinatorial. Genome Biol 7: R90.
24. Lee CS, Wetzel K, Buckley T, Wozniak D & Lee J (2011) Rapid and sensitive detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in chlorinated water and aerosols targeting gyrB gene using real-time PCR. J Appl Microbiol 111: 893-903.
25. Mannisto A (2012) Applicability of rapid methods for controlling Pseudomonas and chlorine in swimming pool water. Undergraduate Thesis, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Finland.
26. Moritz MM (2011) Integration of hygienically relevant bacteria in drinking water biofilms grown on domestic plumbing materials. PhD Thesis, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
27. Moritz MM, Flemming HC & Wingender J (2010) Integration of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Legionella pneumophila in drinking water biofilms grown on domestic plumbing materials. Int J Hyg Environ Health 213: 190-197.
28. Oliver JD (2005) The viable but nonculturable state in bacteria. J Microbiol 43: 93-100.
29. Oliver JD (2010) Recent findings on the viable but nonculturable state in pathogenic bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Rev 34: 415-425.
30. Pier GB (2012) The challenges and promises of new therapies for cystic fibrosis. J Exp Med 209: 1235-1239.
31. Prévost M, Rompré A, Baribeau H, Coallier J & Lafrance P (1997) Service lines: their effect on microbiological quality. J Am Water Works Assoc 89: 78-91.
32. Rossman LA, Clark RM & Grayman WM (1994) Modeling chlorine residuals in drinking-water distribution systems. J Environ Eng 120: 803-820.
33. Saby S, Sibille I, Mathieu L, Paquin JL & Block J-C (1997) Influence of water chlorination on the counting of bacteria with DAPI (4′, 6-diamidino-2-pheny lindole). Appl Environ Microbiol 63: 1564-1569.
34. Schneider H, Geginat G, Hogardt M, Kramer A, Durken M, Schroten H & Tenenbaum T (2012) Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak in a pediatric oncology care unit caused by an errant water jet into contaminated siphons. Pediatr Infect Dis J 31: 648-650.
35. ®. Ann Ig 26: 110-118.
36. Teitzel GM & Parsek MR (2003) Heavy metal resistance of biofilm and planktonic Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Appl Environ Microbiol 69: 2313-2320.
37. Teitzel GM, Geddie A, De Long SK, Kirisits MJ, Whiteley M & Parsek MR (2006) Survival and growth in the presence of elevated copper: transcriptional profiling of copper-stressed Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Bacteriol 188: 7242-7256.
38. Trautmann M, Michalsky T, Wiedeck H, Radosavljevic V & Ruhnke M (2001) Tap water colonization with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a surgical intensive care unit (ICU) and relation to Pseudomonas infections of ICU patients. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 22: 49-52.
39. Trautmann M, Lepper PM & Haller M (2005) Ecology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the intensive care unit and the evolving role of water outlets as a reservoir of the organism. Am J Infect Control 33: S41-S49.
40. United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) (2009) National Recommended Water Quality Criteria. Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology (4304T), Washington, DC.
41. van der Kooij D, Veenendaal HR & Scheffer WJH (2005) Biofilm formation and multiplication of Legionella in a model warm water system with pipes of copper, stainless steel and cross-linked polyethylene. Water Res 39: 2789-2798.
42. Vianelli N, Giannini MB, Quarti C et al. (2006) Resolution of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak in a hematology unit with the use of disposable sterile water filters. Haematologica 91: 983-985.
43. Weinstein RA, Gaynes R, Edwards JR & System NNIS (2005) Overview of nosocomial infections caused by gram-negative bacilli. Clin Infect Dis 41: 848-854.
44. World Health Organization (WHO) (2008) Guidelines for Drinking Water-Quality, 3rd edn incorporating the First and Second addenda Edition (Volume 1). Recommendations. WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
45. Xu H-S, Roberts N, Singleton FL, Attwell RW, Grimes DJ & Colwell RR (1982) Survival and viability of Nonculturable Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae in the estuarine and marine environment. Microb Ecol 8: 313-323.
46. Xue Z, Hessler CM, Panmanee W, Hassett DJ & Seo Y (2013) Pseudomonas aeruginosa inactivation mechanism is affected by capsular extracellular polymeric substances reactivity with chlorine and monochloramine. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 83: 101-111.
47. Yapicioglu H, Gokmen TG, Yildizdas D et al. (2011) Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections due to electronic faucets in a neonatal intensive care unit. J Paediatr Child Health 57: 157-164.
48. Yu Z & Mohn WW (1999) Killing two birds with one stone: simultaneous extraction of DNA and RNA from activated sludge biomass. Can J Microbiol 45: 269-272.