bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/510123; this version posted January 2, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 High prevalence and diversity of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase and emergence 2 of Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae spp in wildlife in Catalonia. 3 4 Laila Darwich1,2*, Anna Vidal1, Chiara Seminati1, Andreu Albamonte1, Alba Casado1, 5 Ferrán López1, Rafael A. Molina-López3, and Lourdes Migura-Garcia2. 6 7 1 Departament de Sanitat i Anatomia Animal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 8 (UAB), 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain. 9 2 IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la 10 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain. 11 3 Catalan Wildlife Service, Centre de Fauna Salvatge de Torreferrussa, Santa Perpètua 12 de Mogoda, Barcelona, Spain 13 14 *Corresponding author 15 E-mail:
[email protected] 16 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/510123; this version posted January 2, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 17 Abstract 18 19 In wildlife, most of the studies focused on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) describe 20 Escherichia coli as the principal indicator of the selective pressure. In the present study, 21 new species of Enterobacteriaceae with a large panel of cephalosporin resistant (CR) 22 genes have been isolated from wildlife in Catalonia.