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VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 171, Issue 3-4, Pages 432-435Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.02.015
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Birds; Bacteria; Antimicrobial resistance; Wildlife
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We aimed at Escherichia coli and Enterobacter cloacae isolates resistant to cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones and Salmonella isolates in wild birds in Arctic Svalbard, Norway. Cloacal swabs of little auks (Alle alle, n = 215) and samples of faeces of glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus, n = 15) were examined. Inducible production of AmpC enzyme was detected in E. cloacae KW218 isolate. Sequence analysis of the 1146 bp PCR product of the ampC gene from this isolate revealed 99% sequence homology with the bla(ACT-14) and bla(ACT-5) AmpC beta-lactamase genes. Four, respectively six of the identified single nucleotide polymorphisms generated amino acid substitutions in the amino acid chain. As the ampC sequence polymorphism in the investigated E. cloacae strain was identified as unique, we revealed a novel variant of the ampC beta-lactamase gene bla(ACT-23). (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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