Biofilms in hospital effluents as a potential crossroads for carbapenemase-encoding strains.
Biofilm
Carbapenem
Carbapenemase
Hospital effluent
Plasmids
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
20 Mar 2019
20 Mar 2019
Historique:
received:
06
09
2018
revised:
09
11
2018
accepted:
28
11
2018
pubmed:
12
12
2018
medline:
27
2
2019
entrez:
12
12
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Bacterial resistance to carbapenem, which is mainly due to the successful dissemination of carbapenemase-encoding genes, has become a major health problem. Few studies have aimed to characterize the level of resistance in the environment, notably in hospital wastewater, which is a likely hotspot for exchange of antibiotic resistance genes. In this work, we looked for the presence of imipenem-resistant bacteria and imipenem in the effluent of the teaching hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, France. Selective growth of bacteria from 14-day old biofilms formed in the pipe sewer showed that 22.1% of the isolates were imipenem-resistant and identified as Aeromonas (n = 23), Pseudomonas (n = 10), Stenotrophomonas (n = 4) and Acinetobacter (n = 1). Fifteen of these strains harbored acquired carbapenemase-encoding genes bla
Identifiants
pubmed: 30530220
pii: S0048-9697(18)34782-X
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.427
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Anti-Bacterial Agents
0
Medical Waste
0
Imipenem
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
7-15Informations de copyright
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