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Bacteria from Fildes Peninsula carry class 1 integrons and antibiotic resistance genes in conjugative plasmids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2017

Verónica Antelo
Affiliation:
Unidad de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, C.P. 11600, Uruguay
Anne Marie Guerout
Affiliation:
Institut Pasteur, Unité Plasticité du Génome Bactérien, Département Génomes et Génétique, Paris, France CNRS, UMR3525, Paris, France
Didier Mazel
Affiliation:
Institut Pasteur, Unité Plasticité du Génome Bactérien, Département Génomes et Génétique, Paris, France CNRS, UMR3525, Paris, France
Valeria Romero
Affiliation:
Departamento de Genómica, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, C.P. 11600, Uruguay
José Sotelo-Silveira
Affiliation:
Departamento de Genómica, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, C.P. 11600, Uruguay
Silvia Batista*
Affiliation:
Unidad de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, C.P. 11600, Uruguay
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*Corresponding author: sbatista@iibce.edu.uy
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Abstract

A total of 63 psychrotolerant bacteria exhibiting resistance to various antibiotics, such as ampicillin, streptomycin and/or trimethoprim, were isolated from diverse sites varying in terms of human influence, from obvious presence to probable absence, on Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, South Shetland Islands). The presence of class 1 integrons in some of these antibiotic resistant isolates was further determined. Plasmids from two isolates (HP19 and CN11) were transferred to Escherichia coli DH5α by conjugation. Sequence analysis of the plasmid from the HP19 isolate exhibited high similarity (~99%) to plasmid p34998-210.894kb of Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. steigerwaltii of clinical origin and confirmed the presence of a dfrA14 cassette in a class 1 integron context. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis of five of these psychrotolerant isolates indicated similarity with environmental bacteria previously identified as Enterobacter species. Together, these results confirm that there may be no pristine niches for antibiotic resistance gene dissemination.

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Table I Description of Tmpr isolates from which a fragment of the expected size was amplified by PCR using primers int1_fwd–int1_rev.

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Fig. 1a Representation of part of pKOX105 from Klebsiella oxytoca (HM126016), including intI, dfrA14 and open reading frames located downstream. b. Regions for which DNA sequences were obtained from our isolates with corresponding sequence positions to pKOX105.

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Fig. 2 Growth of HP19 (triangles) and CN11 (squares) isolates compared with E. coli strain DH5α (circles) in Luria–Bertani broth at different temperatures. Data are presented as the mean of three replicates±standard deviation.

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