Antimicrobial susceptibilities of various Arcobacter species

Abstract

On 6 September 2009 (GMT 21:49) a moderate Mw5.4 earthquake sequence burst at the eastern border of Albania with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Th e main shock was located ~6 km north of the epicentre of the 30 November 1967 Mw6.2 Dibra (or Debar) earthquake, which caused loss of life and considerable damage to buildings. We use broad band waveforms recorded by the Hellenic Unifi ed Seismic Network (HUSN), which receives real-time waveforms from the neighbouring networks, to compute focal mechanisms, obtain the slip model and derive the ShakeMap of the mainshock. Th e focal mechanisms of 18 of the stronger events of the sequence, obtained through time-domain moment tensor inversion, indicate that deformation is taken up by NNE−SSW-trending normal faults, in agreement with the ~E−W extension previously identifi ed within the Albanian orogen. Our results show that the 2009 main shock ruptured a roughly 9 km normal fault at a depth of 6 km, which strikes at 194° and dips west at ~45°. Th e slip of the main shock was confi ned to a single patch of ~9 km × 6 km, the average slip was 5 cm and the peak slip was 18 cm. Th e slip model was incorporated in a forward modelling scheme to simulate the ground motion distribution in the near fi eld. Th e ShakeMap thus obtained, based on the distribution of Peak Ground Velocity at phantom stations, outlines the mesoseismal area within the Dibra and Bulqiza districts in Albania, in accordance with macroseismic observations. Th e region aff ected by the 2009 sequence, together with the seismogenic region of the 1967 Dibra event, form a roughly NNE−SSW-trending structure which is an active seismotectonic zone in eastern Albania constituting a threat for nearby urban areas.

Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Arcobacter butzleri and Arcobacter cryaerophilus isolates from retail meat in Lower Silesia region, Poland

“…Nevertheless, we detected 2 of A. cryaerophilus and 27 of A. butzleri isolates susceptible to cefotaxime, despite culture medium we used was complemented with other cephalosporin, i.e., cefoperazone. Since similar observation has been reported by other authors (Kabeya et al 2004, Shah et al 2012, Ü nver et al 2013, it seems that some Arcobacter isolates can be successfully isolated from studied material, irrespectively of their antibiotic susceptibility. However, taking into account the same reason, i.e., cephalosporin susceptibility, it is also plausible that other isolates were not recovered from studied material, thus care should be taken in reporting on actual incidence of this species.…”

Isolation and determination of antimicrobial resistance of Arcobacter species isolated from animal faeces in the Diyarbakir region of Turkey using the 16S rDNA-RFLP method

“…The results of our study support this finding. In the study of Unver et al (2013) on domestic geese in Kars, Turkey, A. butzleri, A. cryaerophilus and A. skirrowii spp. were reported to be resistant to cloxacillin and ampicillin, and susceptible to enrofloxacin.…”

“…to antibiotics is important with regard to the development of doi: 10.17221/69/2016-VETMED nutritional media used for isolation, and with regard to the treatment of diseases observed in animals and humans (Unver et al 2013). Arcobacter spp.…”

Arcobacter Species

“…In another relatively small study of 16 Arcobacter isolates (Unver et al, 2013), all proved to be resistant to cloxacillin, cefazolin, optochin, vancomycin, and fusidic acid, and most were susceptible to oxytetracycline, chloramphenicol, nitrofurantoin, amikacin, enrofloxacin, ofloxacin, erythromycin, ampicillin, sulbactam, and amoxicillin. However, the A. butzleri isolates were resistant to chloroamphenical and amoxicillin.…”