Caracterização de grupos agr e sua relação com perfil enterotoxigênico e antimicrobiano em Staphylococcus aureus isolados de diferentes origens.

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Bassani, Milena Tomasi
• Orientador(a): Silva, Wladimir Padilha da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Pelotas
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia Agroindustrial
• Departamento: Faculdade de Agronomia Eliseu Maciel
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Accessory gene regulator; Staphylococcus aureus; Enterotoxinas; Cepas multiresistentes
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Accessory gene regulator; Staphylococcus aureus; Enterotoxin; Multiresistant strains
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE ALIMENTOS::TECNOLOGIA DE ALIMENTOS
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/1312

he accessory gene regulator (agr) is a S. aureus global regulator of virulence factors, as the staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE), responsible for the staphylococcal food poisoning. There are four different agr groups due to the polymorphism in the amino acids sequence of the agrC and agrD. In the literature is described a relationship among agr groups and virulence factors, diseases, preferential host and antibiotic resistance. In this context, it was aimed to characterize the agr groups through biplex PCR, and relationship among agr groups, enterotoxigenic and antimicrobian profiles of S. aureus isolated from foods and bovine mastitis milk. A total of 115 strains were used to characterize the agr groups , being 30 isolated from f bovine mastitis milk and 85 isolated from several sources of foods. To assess the relationship between agr groups and enterotoxin production were used 14/85 strains previously characterized for the presence of some enterotoxins (sea, seb, sec, sed e cluster egc). To determine the profile of antibiotics resistance were used 71/115 strains. We observed a prevalence of agr group II with19.1% (22/115 strains), followed by the agr I with 8.6% (10/115 strains), agr III with 7.8% (9 / 115 strains), and agr IV with6.0% (7 / 115 strains). Among the strains isolated from bovine mastitis milk agr group I was prevailed with 20% (6/30 strains), whereas in the strains isolated from several food sources was observed prevalence of agr group II with 32.7% (18/85 strains), especially among those from chicken meat. Among the 14 strains (14/85) that contained enterotoxin genes, the majority of them contained the cluster egc (70%) belonged to agr II, whereas no relationship was found with those who had the genes for the classical SE (sea, seb, sec, sed). Considering the antibiotic resistance 100% of bovine mastitis milk strains and from various sources of food were resistant to penicillin, ampicillin, cefoxitin, and vancomycin. Relationship was observed between food strains, which were resistant to vancomycin and agr II, however, no relationship was found between antibiotic profile and agr groups among the strains isolated from bovine mastitis milk. These results demonstrated the prevalence of agr II among food strains and agr I among bovine mastitis milk strains. Moreover, the strains that carried the cluster egc were predominant agr II, which could indicate the occurrence of a clonal group among those. Another important result obtained in this study was the high rate of S. aureus multiresistant strains isolated from food, which emphasizes the importance of dissemination of these strains among foods.