Escherichia coli carrying blaNDM-1 obtained from a migratory penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) in the Brazilian seacoast

Genomic Analysis of a Highly Virulent NDM-1-Producing Escherichia coli ST162 Infecting a Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps) in South America

“…Alarmingly, increasing reports of WHO critical priority Gram-negative pathogens (MCR-type, carbapenemaseand/or ESBL-producing bacteria) on the Brazilian coast have been occurred in the last decade, which may indicate, in part, the adaptation of such pathogens in the sea. In this regard, the occurrence of such bacteria was documented in coastal waters from in densely coastal areas (Montezzi et al, 2015;Campana et al, 2017;Fernandes et al, 2017Fernandes et al, , 2020aPaschoal et al, 2017;Sellera et al, 2017a;Corrêa et al, 2021;Furlan et al, 2021;Cordeiro-Moura et al, 2022), in marine fishes (Sellera et al, 2018a) and benthic invertebrates (Sellera et al, 2018b;Monte et al, 2019;Fernandes et al, 2020b), and also infecting penguins (Sellera et al, 2017b;Wink et al, 2021), a sea turtle (Goldberg et al, 2019), and a dolphin (Fuentes-Castillo et al, 2021b). More specifically, the presence of NDM-1-producing bacteria have been so far identified in K. pneumoniae and Acinetobacter chengduensis from coastal waters of Rio de Janeiro (Campana et al, 2017;Paschoal et al, 2017;Corrêa et al, 2021), whereas a single case of E. coli carrying bla NDM−1 infecting a penguin was also documented in the South coast of Brazil (Wink et al, 2021).…”