Abstract
BackgroundEnvironmental contamination by pharmaceuticals is a public health concern: drugs administered to humans and animals are excreted with urine or faeces and attend the sewage treatment. The main consequences of use and abuse of antibiotics is the development and diffusion of antibiotic resistance that has become a serious global problem. Aim of the study is to evaluate the presence of antimicrobial residues and to assess the antimicrobial resistance in bacteria species isolated from different wild caught seawater fish and fishery products.ResultsThree antibiotic substances (Oxytetracicline, Sulfamethoxazole and Trimethoprim) were detected (by screening and confirmatory methods) in Octopus vulgaris, Sepia officinalis and Thais haemastoma. All Vibrio strains isolated from fish were resistant to Vancomycin (VA) and Penicillin (P). In Vibrio alginolyticus, isolated in Octopus vulgaris, a resistance against 9 antibiotics was noted.ConclusionsWild caught seawater fish collected in Gulf of Salerno (Campania Region), especially in marine areas including mouths of streams, were contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains and that they might play an important role in the spread of antibiotic-resistance.
Highlights
Environmental contamination by pharmaceuticals is a public health concern: drugs administered to humans and animals are excreted with urine or faeces and attend the sewage treatment
Aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of antimicrobial substances and to assess the antimicrobial resistance in bacteria species isolated from wild caught seawater fish and fishery products caught in Tyrrenian sea along the coast of Campania region
Only 7 species of fish and 3 species of fishery products were studied to determine the incidence of antibiotic resistance, all the strains isolated were resistant to one or more of the antibiotics tested; the frequency of resistance varied from 16.6% to 50% in different samples; 69,45% of the microbial strains isolates showed resistance to more than 4 molecules tested
Summary
Environmental contamination by pharmaceuticals is a public health concern: drugs administered to humans and animals are excreted with urine or faeces and attend the sewage treatment. Aim of the study is to evaluate the presence of antimicrobial residues and to assess the antimicrobial resistance in bacteria species isolated from different wild caught seawater fish and fishery products. Drugs administered to humans and animals are excreted with urine or faeces [1] and attend the sewage treatment plant [2]; successively if substances are hydrophilic or are metabolized to a more hydrophilic form of the parent lipophilic substance, will pass the waste water resistance surveillance of bacteria circulating in humans, animals and food products. Aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of antimicrobial substances and to assess the antimicrobial resistance in bacteria species isolated from wild caught seawater fish and fishery products caught in Tyrrenian sea along the coast of Campania region (southern Italy). The antibiotics tested were Teicoplanin (TEC), Cephalexin (CN), Penicillin (P), Oxacillin (OX), Amoxicillin/Clavulanic Acid (AMC), Cefotaxime (CTX), Vancomycin (VA), Sulfamethoxazole (SXT), Rifampicin (RD), Cefoxitin (FOX), Plaritromicin (PRL), Ciprofloxacin (CIP), Chloramphenicol (C), Tobramicin (TOB), Tetracycline (TE), Tigecycline (TGC), Linezolid (LZD) and Fosfomycin (FOS)
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