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Distribution of antibiotic resistance and the presence of vancomycin-resistance genes (vanA and vanB) in Enterobacteriaceae isolated from the Sea of Marmara, the Canakkale Strait and the Istanbul Strait, Turkey Cover

Distribution of antibiotic resistance and the presence of vancomycin-resistance genes (vanA and vanB) in Enterobacteriaceae isolated from the Sea of Marmara, the Canakkale Strait and the Istanbul Strait, Turkey

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|Jun 2016

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Figure 1

Study area: the Sea of Marmara, Istanbul Strait and Canakkale Strait
Study area: the Sea of Marmara, Istanbul Strait and Canakkale Strait

Figure 2

Antibiotic resistance of Enterobacteriaceae isolates from the Istanbul Strait, the Çnakkale Strait and the Sea of Marmara (AMP: ampicillin; CXM: cefuroxime; CAZ: ceftazidime; CN: gentamycin; K: kanamycin; TE: tetracycline; VA: vancomycin; OFX: ofloxacin; ATM: aztreonam; AMC: amoxicillin; CTX: cefotaxime)
Antibiotic resistance of Enterobacteriaceae isolates from the Istanbul Strait, the Çnakkale Strait and the Sea of Marmara (AMP: ampicillin; CXM: cefuroxime; CAZ: ceftazidime; CN: gentamycin; K: kanamycin; TE: tetracycline; VA: vancomycin; OFX: ofloxacin; ATM: aztreonam; AMC: amoxicillin; CTX: cefotaxime)

Figure 3

MAR index of the isolates from the Istanbul Strait, the Canakkale Strait and the Sea of Marmara
MAR index of the isolates from the Istanbul Strait, the Canakkale Strait and the Sea of Marmara

Figure 4

Detection of Enterobacteriaceae vanA gene coding for vancomycin resistance. Lane 1: E. coli, 2: E. coli, 3: S. liquefaciens, 4: C. braakii, 5: E. cloacae, 6: DNA size marker
Detection of Enterobacteriaceae vanA gene coding for vancomycin resistance. Lane 1: E. coli, 2: E. coli, 3: S. liquefaciens, 4: C. braakii, 5: E. cloacae, 6: DNA size marker

Frequency of antibiotic resistance (%) of Enterobacteriaceae isolates from the Istanbul Strait, the Canakkale Strait and the Sea of Marmara

IsolatesAMP10 μgCXM30 μgCAZ30 μgCN120 μgK5 μgTE30 μgVA30 μgOFX5 μgATM30 μgAMC30 μgCTX30 μg
Cedecea spp.1005010005005050000
Citrobacter spp.1000500010000000
E. coli66.666.67.47.414.937.118.525.67.429.618.5
Enterobacter spp.57.157.185.714.321.442.9014.27.135.721.4
Klebsiella spp.72.75045.59.118.136.327.731.84.5445.418.1
Pantoea spp.66.666.666.6016.633.3505005066.6
Proteus spp.1001008002060404020400
Providencia spp.505050005050005050
Raoultella spp.10057.171.4028.542.8042.828.528.50
Salmonella spp.1001009001066.666.60000
Serratia spp.62.556.287.56.2512.543.7543.756.25037.512.5

Diversity of Enterobacteriaceae in the sampling areas

SpeciesSampling areas
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Cedecea lapagei Grimont et al. 1981++-
Citrobacter braakii Brenner et al. 1993+++
C.freundii (Braak 1928) Werkman and Gillen 1932+++
Enterobacter aerogenes Hormaeche and Edwards 1960+++
E. cloacae (Jordan 1890) Hormaeche and Edwards 1960+++
E. sakazakii (Farmer et al. 1980)+++
Escherichia coli T. Escherich, 1885+++
Hafnia alvei Møller, 1954++-
Klebsiella pneumoniae ssp. pneumoniae Schroeter 1886 Trevisan 1887+++
K. ornithinolytica Sakazaki et al. 1989++-
K. oxytoca (Flügge 1886) Lautrop 1956+++
K. planticola Bagley et al. 1982++-
Pantoea agglomerans (Ewing and Fife 1972) Gavini et al. 1989++-
Proteus vulgaris Hauser 1885+++
P. mirabilis Hauser 1885+++
Providencia rettgeri (Hadley 1918) Brenner et al. 1978++-
Raoultella terrigena (Izard et al. 1981) Drancourt et al. 2001++-
Salmonella enterica subsp. arizonae (Borman 1957) Le Minor and Popoff 1987+++
S. typhimurium (Loeffler 1892) Castellani and Chalmers 1919+++
Serratia marcescens Bizio 1823+++
S. odorifera Grimont et al. 1978++-
S. plymuthica (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) Breed et al. 1948++-
S. liquefaciens (Grimes and Hennerty 1931) Bascomb et al. 1971++-
Yersinia enterocolitica (Schleifstein and Coleman 1939) Frederiksen 1964++-

Sequence of each primer (forward, f and reverse, r) used to amplify the two genes/intergenic regions searched using PCR and the respective expected amplicon sizes

Gene/ IRSequenceAmplicon size (bp)Annealing temperature (°C)Reference
vanAf 5’-GGGAAAACGACAATTGC-3’73254Dutka-Malen 1995
r 5’-GTACAATGCGGCCGTTA-3’
vanBf 5’-ATGGGAAGCCGATAGTC-3’63554Ribeiro et al. 2007
r 5’-GATTTCGTTCCTCGACC-3’
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ohs-2016-0017 | Journal eISSN: 1897-3191 | Journal ISSN: 1730-413X
Language: English
Page range: 182 - 190
Submitted on: May 18, 2015
Accepted on: Oct 16, 2015
Published on: Jun 22, 2016
Published by: University of Gdańsk
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2016 Mine Çardak, Gülçen Altug, Mustafa Ay, Ôzlem Erol, published by University of Gdańsk
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