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http://dx.doi.org/10.7845/kjm.2018.7095

Plasmid profiling of multi-drug resistant Vibrio sp. isolated from influent and effluent water samples of fish farms in Jeju, South Korea  

Farooq, Adeel (Faculty of Biotechnology, College of Applied Life Science, SARI, Jeju National University)
Unno, Tatsuya (Faculty of Biotechnology, College of Applied Life Science, SARI, Jeju National University)
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Korean Journal of Microbiology / v.54, no.1, 2018 , pp. 53-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate the plasmid profiling of multi-drug resistant (MDR) Vibrio in influent (inflow) and effluent (discharged) water samples of fish farms in Jeju, South Korea. MDR isolates identified through disc diffusion susceptibility tests, were subjected to plasmid profiling. One hundred fifty Vibrio isolates were obtained from each influent and effluent water sample. All MDR isolates were subjected to plasmid profiling. Greater number of bacteria were enumerated from effluents (61%) comparing to influents (39%). High incidence of neomycin, sulfamethoxazole, amoxicillin and oxytetracycline resistance was observed among the isolates, which was higher in effluent samples. In contrast, Vibrio isolates were more susceptible to florfenicol, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, and nalidixic acid. Among 99 (influent 39 and effluent 60) MDR isolates, a total of 58 (influent 38 and effluent 20) were found to bear plasmids ranging from 1.7 kb to >10 kb and showed 19 different antibiograms according to the size of plasmids. MDR isolates showed six and four distinct plasmid profiles in influent and effluent, respectively. Effluent samples contained more plasmid-carrying MDR Vibrio isolates with more diverse plasmid profiles and antibiograms, suggesting that fish farm tanks may serve as a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes. The presence of plasmid-carrying MDR Vibrio isolates in fish farm effluent water may contribute to the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes to the environments, which ultimately poses threat to human health.
Keywords
Vibrio; antibiotic resistance genes; fish farm effluent; plasmid profile;
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