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Multi-drug resistant pathogenic bacteria in the gut of young children in Bangladesh

Overview of attention for article published in Gut Pathogens, April 2017
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Title
Multi-drug resistant pathogenic bacteria in the gut of young children in Bangladesh
Published in
Gut Pathogens, April 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13099-017-0170-4
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Shirajum Monira, Syeda Antara Shabnam, Sk. Imran Ali, Abdus Sadique, Fatema-Tuz Johura, Kazi Zillur Rahman, Nur Haque Alam, Haruo Watanabe, Munirul Alam

Abstract

The gut of human harbors diverse commensal microbiota performing an array of beneficial role for the hosts. In the present study, the major commensal gut bacteria isolated by culturing methods from 15 children of moderate income families, aged between 10 and 24 months, were studied for their response to different antibiotics, and the molecular basis of drug resistance. Of 122 bacterial colonies primarily selected from Luria-Bertani agar, bacterial genera confirmed by analytical profile index (API) 20E(®) system included Escherichia as the predominant (52%) organism, followed by Enterobacter (16%), Pseudomonas (12%), Klebsiella (6%), Pantoea (6%), Vibrio (3%), and Citrobacter (3%); while Aeromonas and Raoultella were identified as the infrequently occurring genera. An estimated 11 and 22% of the E. coli isolates carried virulence marker genes stx-2 and eae, respectively. Antimicrobial susceptibility assay revealed 78% of the gut bacteria to be multidrug resistant (MDR) with highest resistance to erythromycin (96%), followed by ampicillin (63%), tetracycline (59%), azithromycin (53%), sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim (43%), cefixime (39%), and ceftriaxone (33%). PCR assay results revealed 56% of the gut bacteria to possess gene cassette Class 1 integron; while 8, 17.5 and 6% of the strains carried tetracycline resistance-related genes tetA, tetB, and tetD, respectively. The macrolide (erythromycin and azithromycin) resistance marker genes mphA, ereB, and ermB were found in 28, 3 and 5% of bacterial isolates, respectively; while 26, 12, 17, 32, 7, 4 and 3% of the MDR bacterial isolates carried the extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-related genes e.g., blaTEM, blaSHV, blaCMY-9, blaCTX-M1, blaCTX-M2, blaCMY-2 and blaOXA respectively. Majority of the MDR gut bacteria harbored large plasmids [e.g., 140 MDa (43%), 105 MDa (30%), 90 MDa (14%)] carrying invasion and related antibiotic resistance marker genes. Our results suggest gut of young Bangladeshi children to be an important reservoir for multi-drug resistant pathogenic bacteria carrying ESBL related genes.

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Unknown 106 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 16%
Student > Master 14 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 12%
Student > Bachelor 11 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 18 17%
Unknown 27 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Immunology and Microbiology 16 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 8%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 6 6%
Other 19 18%
Unknown 30 28%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 September 2019.
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#1,775,687
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