Antimicrobial resistance testing of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli and first description of TEM-52 extended-spectrum β-lactamase in serogroup O26

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2010 Nov;54(11):4907-9. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00551-10. Epub 2010 Aug 23.

Abstract

We have investigated the antimicrobial resistance of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) strains isolated from humans, animals, food, and the environment in Belgium. Resistance was more frequent in non-O157 strains from humans than in O157 strains from humans or other sources, and among non-O157 VTEC strains, intimin-positive strains were more resistant than intimin-negative strains. We also report the first VTEC strain producing an IncI1 extended-spectrum β-lactamase encoded by plasmid-borne bla(TEM-52); this β-lactamase was previously associated with Salmonella enterica and E. coli isolates from different origins.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adhesins, Bacterial / genetics
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics*
  • Escherichia coli / drug effects
  • Escherichia coli / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / metabolism*
  • Escherichia coli Proteins / genetics
  • Humans
  • Plasmids / genetics
  • Shiga Toxins / metabolism*
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*

Substances

  • Adhesins, Bacterial
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Escherichia coli Proteins
  • Shiga Toxins
  • eaeA protein, E coli
  • TEM-52 beta-lactamase
  • beta-Lactamases