Prevalence and characterization of apramycin-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium isolated from healthy and diseased pigs in Korea during 1998 through 2009

J Food Prot. 2013 Aug;76(8):1443-6. doi: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-13-069.

Abstract

Apramycin resistance was observed in 22.8% (81 of 355) of Salmonella Typhimurium isolates collected from pigs from 1998 through 2009 in Korea. All apramycin-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium isolates also were cross-resistant to gentamicin and tobramycin. Among the seven types of aminoglycoside resistance genes tested, only four types were detected in the apramycin-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium isolates: aac (3)-IV, aac (3)-II, aac (3)-III, and ant (2'')-I. Although the aac (3)-IV gene was found in all apramycin-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium isolates, aac (3)-II, aac (3)-III, and ant (2'')-I genes were detected in five (6.2%), two (2.5%), and three (3.7%) isolates, respectively. The apramycin-resistant isolates comprised six phage types, of which PT193 (16 of 81 isolates, 19.8%) was most commonly observed. To our knowledge, this is the first report describing characteristics of apramycin-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium isolates in Korea. Further study is warranted to determine whether apramycin use in animals results in cross-resistance to gentamicin, which may affect public health when gentamicin is required for disease treatment in humans.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
  • Escherichia coli / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
  • Food Safety
  • Gentamicins / pharmacology
  • Humans
  • Korea
  • Meat / microbiology
  • Nebramycin / analogs & derivatives*
  • Nebramycin / pharmacology
  • Prevalence
  • Salmonella typhimurium / drug effects*
  • Salmonella typhimurium / isolation & purification
  • Swine / microbiology*
  • Tobramycin / pharmacology

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Gentamicins
  • Nebramycin
  • apramycin
  • Tobramycin