The Challenge to Control Emergence of Antibiotic Resistance in Virulent Escherichia coli Isolates in Latin America.
Microbiol Spectr
; 10(4): e0150622, 2022 08 31.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1909616
ABSTRACT
The Latin American Coalition for Escherichia coli Research (LACER) was created as a network of investigators using One Health approaches trying to understand infections caused by regional E. coli isolates and to sound the alarm due to the evolution of strains that are multiresistant to antibiotics (resistome) that also display different virulence profiles (virulome). After the COVID19 pandemic, a major concern by investigators has been the appearance of more virulent and resistant strains. Recently, a paper published in Microbiology Spectrum by Brazilian investigators (Fuga B., et al. Microbiol Spectr 10e0125621, 2022, https//doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01256-21) has used a genomic approach to demonstrate that during a period of 45 years, a wide resistome and virulome has converged, resulting in the appearance and persistence of high-risk clones affecting humans, animals and the environment, and its rapid dissemination is becoming an unattended international threat.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Escherichia coli Infections
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COVID-19 Drug Treatment
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Microbiol Spectr
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Spectrum.01506-22
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