Seven-Year Evolution of β-Lactam Resistance Phenotypes in <i>Escherichia coli</i> Isolated from Young Diarrheic and Septicaemic Calves in Belgium
2022
Virginie Guérin | Alban Farchi | Damien Thiry | Frédéric Cawez | Paola Sandra Mercuri | Moreno Galleni | Jacques Mainil | Marc Saulmont
Antimicrobial resistance is a major worldwide hazard. Therefore, the World Health Organization has proposed a classification of antimicrobials with respect to their importance for human medicine and advised some restriction of their use in veterinary medicine. In Belgium, this regulation has been implemented by a Royal Decree (RD) in 2016, which prohibits carbapenem use and enforces strict restrictions on the use of third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins (3 GC and 4 GC) for food-producing animals. Acquired resistance to β-lactam antibiotics is most frequently mediated by the production of β-lactamases in Gram-negative bacteria. This study follows the resistance to β-lactam antibiotics in <i>Escherichia coli</i> isolated from young diarrheic or septicaemic calves in Belgium over seven calving seasons in order to measure the impact of the RD. Phenotypic resistance to eight β-lactams was assessed by disk diffusion assay and isolates were assigned to four resistance profiles: narrow-spectrum β-lactamases (NSBL); extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL); cephalosporinases (AmpC); and cephalosporinase-like, NSBL with cefoxitin resistance (AmpC-like). No carbapenemase-mediated resistance was detected. Different resistance rates were observed for each profile over the calving seasons. Following the RD, the number of susceptibility tests has increased, the resistance rate to 3 GC/4 GC has markedly decreased, while the observed resistance profiles have changed, with an increase in NSBL profiles in particular.
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