Detecção de Escherichia coli shigatoxigênica (STEC) e enteropatogênica (EPEC) em peixes de pisciculturas e de vida livre

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Cardozo, Marita Vedovelli [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Peixe - Criação; Genes; Saúde pública; Virulencia (Microbiologia); Microorganismos patogenicos; Escherichia coli; Fishes
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122015

Although Escherichia coli is not an organism typically found in the fish gut, the microbiota of these animals is directly related to the quality of water in which they live. To evaluate the frequency of shigatoxigenic (STEC) and enteropathogenic (EPEC) Escherichia coli, a total of 472 fish fecal and muscle samples were collected (Oreochromis niloticus, called tilapia), as well as the water in which the fish lived. In animals from fish farms, only one STEC strain (0.2%) was isolated, and showed resistant to several antimicrobial of the quinolone, tetracycline, aminoglycoside and amphenicol classes. In wild fish, six isolates (6%) were obtained, five STEC and one aEPEC. All STEC were classified as pathogenic by phylogenetic grouping, and aEPEC was commensal. In addition, astA, ehxA, saa, efa1, paa, lpfAO113 virulence genes, and O55, O39, O116, H14, H18 and H36 serogroups were detected. Regarding Stx2 toxin variants, an unusual combination of stx2a, stx2c and stx2d subtypes was observed. According to the analysis of genetic similarity, the isolates are heterogeneous and showed a diversified clonal origin. The results of this study demonstrated that fish have the potential to transmit diarrheagenic E. coli to humans, as well as the possible indiscriminate use of antimicrobials in the intensive farming of these animals