Assessing the role of livestock and sympatric wild ruminants in spreading antimicrobial resistant Campylobacter and Salmonella in alpine ecosystems
Espunyes, Johan (Zoo de Barcelona)
Cabezón Ponsoda, Óscar (Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries. Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal)
Dias-Alves, Andrea (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals)
Miralles Escudero, Pol (Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries. Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal)
Ayats, Teresa (Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries. Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal)

Fecha:	2021
Resumen:	Livestock play an important role as reservoir of enteric pathogens and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a health and economic concern worldwide. However, little is known regarding the transmission and maintenance of these pathogens at the wildlife-livestock interface. In this study, we assessed the occurrence, genetic diversity and AMR of Campylobacter spp. and Salmonella spp. shed by sympatric free-ranging livestock and a wild herbivore in an alpine ecosystem. Campylobacter spp. was isolated from 23. 3 % of cattle and 7. 7 % of sheep but was not isolated from horses nor Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica). Campylobacter jejuni was the most frequent species. A high genetic diversity and certain host specificity of C. jejuni isolates was observed. The main AMR detected in Campylobacter isolates was to nalidixic acid (88. 2 %), ciprofloxacin (82. 4 %) and tetracycline (82. 4 %); only 11. 7 % of the isolates were pan-susceptible and 17. 6 % were multi-resistant. Salmonella ser. Newport was isolated only from one Pyrenean chamois and was pan-susceptible. Results show that free-ranging cattle and sheep are spreaders of Campylobacter as well as their AMR strains in the alpine environment. Therefore, contaminated alpine pastures or streams may constitute a source for the dissemination of AMR enteropathogens. However, apparently, alpine wild ungulates such as Pyrenean chamois play a negligible role in the epidemiology of zoonotic enteropathogens and AMR, and are not potential bioindicators of the burden of alpine environments.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Campylobacter ; Salmonella ; Antimicrobial resistance ; Free-ranging livestock ; Pyrenean chamois
Publicado en:	BMC veterinary research, Vol. 17 (february 2021) , ISSN 1746-6148

DOI: 10.1186/s12917-021-02784-2
PMID: 33588859

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