Nationwide Stepwise Emergence and Evolution of Multidrug-Resistant Campylobacter jejuni Sequence Type 5136, United Kingdom

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Lopes, Bruno S. ; Strachan, Norval J.C. ; Ramjee, Meenakshi ; Thomson, Anne ; MacRae, Marion ; Shaw, Sophie ; Forbes, Ken J.
• Description:
  We examined whole-genome-sequenced Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli from 2012-2015 isolated from birds and human stool samples in North East Scotland for the presence of antimicrobial resistance genes. We found that sequence type (ST) 5136 (clonal complex 464) was the most prevalent multidrug-resistant strain of C. jejuni exclusively associated with poultry host reservoirs and recovered from human cases of campylobacteriosis. Tetracycline resistance in ST5136 isolates was due to a tet(O/32/O) mosaic gene, ampicillin resistance was conferred by G → T transversion in the -10 promoter region of bla|, fluoroquinolone resistance was due to C257T change in gyrA, and aminoglycoside resistance was conferred by aac. Whole-genome analysis showed that the strain ST5136 evolved from ST464. The nationwide emergence of ST5136 was probably due to stepwise acquisition of antimicrobial resistance genes selected by high use of β-lactam, tetracycline, fluoroquinolone, and aminoglycoside classes of drugs in the poultry industry.
• Subjects:
  Anti-Bacterial Agents Campylobacter Infections Campylobacter Jejuni Communicable Diseases, Emerging Computational Biology Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial Evolution, Molecular Genes, Bacterial Genome, Bacterial Genomics Humans Microbial Sensitivity Tests Phylogeny Public Health Surveillance

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 25(7):1320-1329
• Pubmed ID:
  31211671
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6590748
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United Kingdom
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:58b6deb78d4ea7f41364cf44d418cd553c546c9b578c7677d873f438431a6094
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/79626/cdc_79626_DS1.pdf
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