Bacteria from Animals As a Pool of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes
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antibiotics Review Bacteria from Animals as a Pool of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Maria Angeles Argudín 1,*, Ariane Deplano 1, Alaeddine Meghraoui 1, Magali Dodémont 1, Amelie Heinrichs 1, Olivier Denis 1,2, Claire Nonhoff 1 and Sandrine Roisin 1 1 National Reference Centre—Staphylococcus aureus, Department of Microbiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, 1070 Brussels, Belgium; [email protected] (A.D.); [email protected](A.M.); [email protected] (M.D.); [email protected] (A.H.); [email protected] (O.D.); [email protected](C.N.); [email protected] (S.R.) 2 Ecole de Santé Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +32-25-556-971 Academic Editor: Mary Barton Received: 27 March 2017; Accepted: 1 June 2017; Published: 6 June 2017 Abstract: Antimicrobial agents are used in both veterinary and human medicine. The intensive use of antimicrobials in animals may promote the fixation of antimicrobial resistance genes in bacteria, which may be zoonotic or capable to transfer these genes to human-adapted pathogens or to human gut microbiota via direct contact, food or the environment. This review summarizes the current knowledge of the use of antimicrobial agents in animal health and explores the role of bacteria from animals as a pool of antimicrobial resistance genes for human bacteria. This review focused in relevant examples within the ESC(K)APE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium difficile (Klebsiella pneumoniae), Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacteriaceae) group of bacterial pathogens that are the leading cause of nosocomial infections throughout the world. Keywords: mec; cfr; mcr 1. Introduction The discovery of antimicrobial agents in the mid-twentieth century revolutionized the management and therapy of bacterial infections. Infections that would normally have been fatal became curable. Ever since then, the antimicrobial agents have saved the lives of millions of people. However, these gains are now seriously jeopardized by the rapid emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria [1]. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major health problem rapidly spreading across the world. The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance report [2] estimates that at least 700,000 annual deaths are due to infections by drug-resistant strains of common bacterial infections, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis and malaria. Numbers suggested that up to 50,000 lives are lost each year due to antibiotic-resistant infections in Europe and the US alone [2]. The inappropriate use of antibiotics in food animals, as well as in the medical practice has potentiated the risk of untreatable infections. Due to the free movement of people and goods between countries, and the intensive international transport of livestock, the problem of AMR is becoming by nature a global problem. Moreover, the AMR emergence is accompanied with a decline in the discovery of new antimicrobial agents. It has been estimated that most of the antibiotics used presently for common human and animal infections will be useless within five to ten years, turning back the clock to the pre-antibiotic era [1]. Antimicrobial agents are principally used for therapy and prevention of human and animal diseases, but they are still used in some countries for growth-promotion in food animal productions [3]. 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