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Population genomics and antimicrobial resistance dynamics of Escherichia coli in wastewater and river environments

Investigation published in Communications Biology

April 12nd, 2021

Aquatic environments are key niches for the emergence, evolution and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance. However, the population diversity and the genetic elements that drive the dynamics of resistant bacteria in different aquatic environments are still largely unknown. The aim of this study was to understand the population genomics and evolutionary events of Escherichia coli resistant to clinically important antibiotics including aminoglycosides, in anthropogenic and natural water ecosystems. Here we show that less different E. coli sequence types (STs) are identified in wastewater than in rivers, albeit more resistant to antibiotics, and with significantly more plasmids/cell (6.36 vs 3.72). However, the genomic diversity within E. coli STs in both aquatic environments is similar. Wastewater environments favor the selection of conserved chromosomal structures associated with diverse flexible plasmids, unraveling promiscuous interplasmidic resistance genes flux. On the contrary, the key driver for river E. coli adaptation is a mutable chromosome along with few plasmid types shared between diverse STs harboring a limited resistance gene content




Delgado-Blas JF., Ovejero CM., David S., Montero N., Calero-Caceres W., Garcillan-Barcia MP., de la Cruz F., Muniesa M., Aanensen DM. and Gonzalez-Zorn B..




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Participants:

Universidad ComplutenseServicio de Zoonosis de Transmisión Alimentaria y Resistencia a Antimicrobianos (ZTA). Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). Universidad Complutense (UCM).

Universidad ComplutenseDepartamento de Producción Animal. Facultad de Veterinaria. Universidad Complutense (UCM).

Wellcome Trust Sanger InstituteCentre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Universitat de BarcelonaFacultad de Biología. Universitat de Barcelona (UB).

Universidad de CantabriaUniversidad de Cantabria (UC).

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasInstituto de Biomedicina o Biotecnología de Cantabria (IBBTEC). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Technical University of AmbatoFaculty of Food Science. Engineering and Biotechnology. Technical University of Ambato (UTA).







FACTOR YEAR Q
6.548 2021

PMID: 33846529

ISSN: 2399-3642



TITLE: Population genomics and antimicrobial resistance dynamics of Escherichia coli in wastewater and river environments


JOURNAL: Commun Biol


NUMERACIÓN: 4(1):457


AÑO: 2021


PUBLISHER: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP


AUTHORS: Delgado-Blas JF., Ovejero CM., David S., Montero N., Calero-Caceres W., Garcillan-Barcia MP., de la Cruz F., Muniesa M., Aanensen DM. and Gonzalez-Zorn B..


Last
Bruno González Zorn

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01949-x


CITE THIS PUBLICATION:

Delgado-Blas JF., Ovejero CM., David S., Montero N., Calero-Caceres W., Garcillan-Barcia MP., de la Cruz F., Muniesa M., Aanensen DM. and Gonzalez-Zorn B. Population genomics and antimicrobial resistance dynamics of Escherichia coli in wastewater and river environments. Communications Biology. 4(1):457. 2021. (A). ISSN: 2399-3642. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01949-x


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