Resistência a antimicrobianos e diversidade de β-lactamases em Escherichia coli de origem aviária

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira Filho, José Carlos de
• Orientador(a): Moraes, Célia Alencar de
• Banca de defesa: Costa, Maurício Dutra , Mantovani, Hilário Cuquetto , Moreira, Maria Aparecida Scatamburlo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Microbiologia Agrícola
• Departamento: Associações micorrízicas; Bactérias láticas e probióticos; Biologia molecular de fungos de interesse
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Resistência; Antimicrobianos; β-lactamases
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Resistance; Antimicrobial; β-lactamases
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::FITOSSANIDADE::MICROBIOLOGIA AGRICOLA
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/5368

The diversity of resistance mechanisms to antimicrobial compounds was investigated in E. coli strains isolated from poultry. All 30 isolates were resistant to ampicillin and 26 of them were resistant to at least two antibiotics. Multi-resistance profiles were confirmed, including intermediate levels. Forty percent of the strains presented four resistance markers and 93% of the isolates were resistant to tetracycline, an antibiotic commonly used in poultry farms. The β-lactamase diversity among the strains was probed against seven compounds. Among strains bearing the same resistance profile for other groups of antimicrobial drugs, it was possible to observe different β-lactamases activity against the tested substrates. This fact suggests either a pool of resistance genes or regulatory differences. The isolate that displayed confirmed activity against six of the β-lactamic antibiotics bears a large molecular mass plasmid that confers the AmpR phenotype. A fragment of this plasmid with approximately 5 kb was subcloned in the pCCR9 vector which is commonly used to detect β-lactamase genes. The amino acid deduced from nucleotide sequencing displayed 100% of identity to TEM-1, a class A serine β-lactamase. Next to the gene encoding TEM-1 was found putative transposon related to the Tn3 family, albeit with some differences in the order and direction of transcription of the genes.