Antibiotic-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from diseased freshwater goldfish

Goldfish farming gained more attention among the ornamental fishes in aquaculture industry. The occurrence of bacterial infections and further antimicrobial treatment lead to the major crisis of antibiotic resistance in aquaculture. We have isolated diverse enterobacteriaceae groups which affect the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Archives of microbiology 2021, Vol.203 (1), p.219-231
Hauptverfasser: Preena, P. G., Dharmaratnam, Arathi, Raj, N. Sundar, Raja, S. Arun, Nair, Reshma R., Swaminathan, T. Raja
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Zusammenfassung:Goldfish farming gained more attention among the ornamental fishes in aquaculture industry. The occurrence of bacterial infections and further antimicrobial treatment lead to the major crisis of antibiotic resistance in aquaculture. We have isolated diverse enterobacteriaceae groups which affect the goldfish and identified their response towards 46 antimicrobials of 15 different classes. Thirteen significant bacterial isolates such as Edwardsiella tarda , Serratia marcescens , Klebsiella aerogenes , Proteus penneri , P. hauseri , Enterobacter cloacae , E. cancerogenus , E. ludwigii , Citrobacter freundii , E. coli , Kluyvera cryocrescens , Plesiomonas shigelloides and Providencia vermicola were recovered from the infected fish with the Shannon–wiener diversity index of 2.556. Multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR) index was found to be maximum for P. penneri (0.87) and minimum for C. freundii and E. cloacae (0.22), highlighting the hyper antibiotic selection pressure in the farm. The minimum concentration of antibiotics required to inhibit most of the resistant isolates was found to be > 256 mcg/ml. All the isolates were susceptible towards ciprofloxacin. Plasmid curing and further AMR tests could reveal the location of antibiotic resistance genes mainly as plasmids which determine the large extent of AMR spread through horizontal gene transfer. This study is the first of its kind to investigate the antimicrobial resistance profile of enterobacteriaceae recovered from goldfish, before and after plasmid curing.
ISSN:0302-8933
1432-072X
DOI:10.1007/s00203-020-02021-8