Antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from cows with mastitis in the eastern Poland and analysis of susceptibility of resistant strains to alternative non-antibiotic agents: lysostaphin, nisin and polymyxin B. - Publication - Bridge of Knowledge

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Antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from cows with mastitis in the eastern Poland and analysis of susceptibility of resistant strains to alternative non-antibiotic agents: lysostaphin, nisin and polymyxin B.

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The aim of the studies was analysis of resistance of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine mastitis in eastern part of Poland to a set of 20 antibiotics and three alternative agents: lysostaphin, nisin and polymyxin B. Eighty-six out of 123 examined isolates were susceptible to all of 20 tested antibiotics (70 %). The highest percentage of resistance was observed in the case of β-lactam antibiotics: amoxicillin (n=22, 17.9 %), ampicillin (n=28, 22.8 %) and penicillin (n=29, 23.6 %) and streptomycin (n=13; 10.6 %). Twenty-five out of penicillin resistant strains were found to carry blaZ gene coding for β-lactamases. Two strains were found to be mecA positive and few strains were classified as Multi Drug Resistant (MDR), one of them was simultaneously resistant to six antibiotics. All strains, resistant to at least one antibiotic (n=37) and two control strains, were susceptible to lysostaphin with MIC values of: 0.008 – 0.5 μg/ml (susceptible breakpoint 32 μg/ml). Twenty-one (54 %) isolates were susceptible to nisin. The MIC value of this agent for 17 (44 %) strains was 51.2 μg/ml and was not much higher than susceptibility breakpoint value (32 μg/ml). The polymyxin B was able to inhibit the growth of most of strains tested (n=31, 77.5 %) in the concentration of 64 μg/ml, for six isolates the MIC value of this agent was 32 μg/ml and two strains required higher concentration. The presented results confirmed observed worldwide problem of spreading antibiotic resistance among staphylococci isolated from bovine mastitis, on the other hand, we have indicated high level of bactericidal activity of nisin and especially lysostaphin.

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artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE no. 76, edition 3, pages 355 - 362,
ISSN: 0916-7250
Language:
English
Publication year:
2014
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Szweda P., Schielmann M., Frankowska A., Kot B., Zalewska M.: Antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from cows with mastitis in the eastern Poland and analysis of susceptibility of resistant strains to alternative non-antibiotic agents: lysostaphin, nisin and polymyxin B.// JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE. -Vol. 76, iss. 3 (2014), s.355-362
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