Arcobacter butzleri an emerging enteropathogen: communication of two cases with chronic diarrhea

Fernández, Heriberto; Krause, Sergio; Villanueva, María Paz

doi:10.1590/s1517-83822004000200008

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“…Predominantly the species A. butzleri, and also to a lesser extent the species A. cryaerophilus and A. skirrowii, are implicated in enteritis and occasionally septicemia in humans (Vandenberg et al, 2004;Wybo et al, 2004). Clinical symptoms are similar to a Campylobacter jejuni infection but a more persistent, watery diarrhea has been reported (Kiehlbauch et al, 1991;On et al, 1995;Hsueh et al, 1997;Yan et al, 2000;Woo et al, 2001;Lau et al, 2002;Fernandez et al, 2004;Vandenberg et al, 2004;Wybo et al, 2004). Infection probably occurs through the consumption of contaminated food, in particular poultry products, pork, beef, and drinking water ( Jacob et al, 1998;Ho et al, 2006;Van Driessche and Houf, 2007).…”

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Towards a Typing Strategy forArcobacterSpecies Isolated from Humans and Animals and Assessment of theIn VitroGenomic Stability

Douidah

Zutter

Baré

et al. 2014

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

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Arcobacter species have a widespread distribution with a broad range of animal hosts and environmental reservoirs, and are increasingly associated with human illness. To elucidate the routes of infection, several characterization methods such as pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), amplified fragment-length polymorphism, and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-PCR have already been applied, but without proper validation or comparison. At present, no criterion standard typing method or strategy has been proposed. Therefore, after the validation of PFGE, those commonly applied typing methods were compared for the characterization of six human-and animal-associated Arcobacter species. With a limited number of isolates to be characterized, PFGE with restriction by KpnI is proposed as the first method of choice. However, ERIC-PCR represents a more convenient genomic fingerprinting technique when a large number of isolates is involved. Therefore, a first clustering of similar patterns obtained after ERIC-PCR, with a subsequent typing of some representatives per ERIC cluster by PFGE, is recommended. As multiple genotypes are commonly isolated from the same host and food, genomic plasticity has been suggested. The in vitro genomic stability of Arcobacter butzleri and A. cryaerophilus was assessed under two temperatures and two oxygen concentrations. Variability in the genomic profile of A. cryaerophilus was observed after different passages for different strains at 37°C under microaerobic conditions. The bias due to these genomic changes must be taken into account in the evaluation of the relationship of strains.

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Towards a Typing Strategy forArcobacterSpecies Isolated from Humans and Animals and Assessment of theIn VitroGenomic Stability

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Zutter

Baré

et al. 2014

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

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“…Several studies have been conducted to determine the antibacterial susceptibility of arcobacters isolated from environmental [8,21], animal [1,21,23] and human [9,15,25], origin. However, it is known that reports on the antimicrobial resistance of Arcobacter strains from different sources are limited worldwide.…”

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<i>In vitro</i> Antibacterial Susceptibility of <i>Arcobacter butzleri</i> Isolated from Different Sources

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Kayman

Hızlısoy

et al. 2012

The Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

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ABSTRAcT. The objective of this study was to determine the antibiotic susceptibility of Arcobacter spp. isolated from various sources. Seventy Arcobacter spp. isolates were tested for their susceptibility to 13 antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by using the agar disc diffusion method on Mueller-Hinton agar supplemented with 5% defibrinated sheep blood. The antibiotics tested included enrofloxacin, erythromycin, streptomycin, gentamycin, rifampin, tetracycline, ampicillin, trimethoprim/ sulfamethoxazole, nalidixic acid, danofloxacin, amoxycillin-clavulonic acid, cefuroxime-sodium, neomycine. Although all the arcobacters tested were susceptible to gentamycin, resistance to three or more antibacterial agents (especially, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, cefuroxime-sodium and rifampin) was observed. A. butzleri isolates were found to be resistant to amoxycillin+clavulonic acid, nalidixic acid and ampicillin, at the rate of 20%, 44.28% and 78.57% respectively. In conclusion, gentamycin, streptomycin and tetracycline may be suitable antibiotics for the treatment or control of disease caused by Arcobacter spp. in veterinary and human medicine. KEY WORDS: agar disc diffusion, antibacterial susceptibility, Arcobacter spp.

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“…Lerner et al (20) recovered A. butzleri from two hospitalized patients with diabetes mellitus type I, hyperuricemia, and alcohol abuse, who complained of diarrhea and abdominal cramps. In Chile, Fernandez et al (21) isolated A. butzleri from two patients with chronic diarrhea, and in another study (22), A. butzleri was found at a prevalance of 8% as an etiological agent of travellers' diarrhea in Mexico, Guatemala, and India.…”

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Human Acute Gastroenteritis Associated with Arcobacter butzleri

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Atabay

Abay

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Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

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Arcobacter butzleri an emerging enteropathogen: communication of two cases with chronic diarrhea

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

Towards a Typing Strategy forArcobacterSpecies Isolated from Humans and Animals and Assessment of theIn VitroGenomic Stability

Towards a Typing Strategy forArcobacterSpecies Isolated from Humans and Animals and Assessment of theIn VitroGenomic Stability

<i>In vitro</i> Antibacterial Susceptibility of <i>Arcobacter butzleri</i> Isolated from Different Sources

Human Acute Gastroenteritis Associated with Arcobacter butzleri

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