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Bacteria from Animals as a Pool of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes

by
Maria Angeles Argudín
1,*,
Ariane Deplano
1,
Alaeddine Meghraoui
1,
Magali Dodémont
1,
Amelie Heinrichs
1,
Olivier Denis
1,2,
Claire Nonhoff
1 and
Sandrine Roisin
1
1
National Reference Centre—Staphylococcus aureus, Department of Microbiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, 1070 Brussels, Belgium
2
Ecole de Santé Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
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Academic Editor: Mary Barton
Antibiotics 2017, 6(2), 12; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/antibiotics6020012
Received: 28 March 2017 / Revised: 12 May 2017 / Accepted: 1 June 2017 / Published: 6 June 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antibiotics in Animal Health)
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Antimicrobial agents are used in both veterinary and human medicine. The intensive use of antimicrobials in animals may promote the fixation of antimicrobial resistance genes in bacteria, which may be zoonotic or capable to transfer these genes to human-adapted pathogens or to human gut microbiota via direct contact, food or the environment. This review summarizes the current knowledge of the use of antimicrobial agents in animal health and explores the role of bacteria from animals as a pool of antimicrobial resistance genes for human bacteria. This review focused in relevant examples within the ESC(K)APE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium difficile (Klebsiella pneumoniae), Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacteriaceae) group of bacterial pathogens that are the leading cause of nosocomial infections throughout the world. View Full-Text
Keywords: mec; cfr; mcr mec; cfr; mcr
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Argudín, M.A.; Deplano, A.; Meghraoui, A.; Dodémont, M.; Heinrichs, A.; Denis, O.; Nonhoff, C.; Roisin, S. Bacteria from Animals as a Pool of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes. Antibiotics 2017, 6, 12. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/antibiotics6020012

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Argudín MA, Deplano A, Meghraoui A, Dodémont M, Heinrichs A, Denis O, Nonhoff C, Roisin S. Bacteria from Animals as a Pool of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes. Antibiotics. 2017; 6(2):12. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/antibiotics6020012

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Argudín, Maria A.; Deplano, Ariane; Meghraoui, Alaeddine; Dodémont, Magali; Heinrichs, Amelie; Denis, Olivier; Nonhoff, Claire; Roisin, Sandrine. 2017. "Bacteria from Animals as a Pool of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes" Antibiotics 6, no. 2: 12. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/antibiotics6020012

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