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Article: Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Iberian pigs.
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ABSTRACT: Iberian pigs are bred in Spain for the production of high-value dry-cured products, whose export volumes are increasing. Animals are typically reared outdoors, although indoor farming is becoming popular. We compared carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Iberian pigs, raised indoors and outdoors, with intensively farmed Standard White pigs. From June 2007 to February 2008, 106 skin swabs were taken from Iberian pigs and 157 samples from SWP at slaughterhouses in Spain. We found that Iberian pigs carried MRSA, although with a significantly lower prevalence (30/106; 28%) than SWP (130/157; 83%). A higher prevalence of indoor Iberian pigs compared with animals reared under outdoor conditions was not significant; however, all but one positive indoor Iberian pig samples were detected from one slaughterhouse. Overall, 16 different spa types were identified, with t011 predominating in all three animal populations. A subset of isolates was characterized by MLST. Most of these belonged to ST398. MRSA isolates from Iberian pigs presented a higher susceptibility to antibiotics than those isolated from SWP. Despite limited contact with humans, pigs raised outdoors are colonized by an MRSA population that genetically overlaps with that of intensively farmed pigs, although antimicrobial resistance is lower. To our knowledge, this is the first detection of MRSA in food animals raised in free-range conditions.Letters in Applied Microbiology 01/2012; 54(4):280-5. · 1.62 Impact Factor -
Article: Resistance mechanisms and farm-level distribution of fecal Escherichia coli isolates resistant to extended-spectrum cephalosporins in pigs in Spain.
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ABSTRACT: Fecal Escherichia coli isolates showing a phenotype of reduced susceptibility or resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins are common among pigs in Spain. The aim of this study was to describe the main beta-lactam resistance mechanisms carried by these strains and their distribution at farm-level. Twenty-nine E. coli isolates showing reduced susceptibility or resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins were collected from a sampling frame of 80 pig farms distributed over 13 Spanish provinces. The survey was carried out at the slaughterhouse level in 2004. Of the 29 isolates, 21 (72%) met the criteria for a positive phenotypic confirmatory test for extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL). The following ESBLs were detected: SHV-12 (12 isolates, 41%), CTX-M-1 (three isolates, 10%), CTX-M-9 (three isolates, 10%), and CTX-M-14 (three isolates, 10%). The remaining eight isolates (28%) were phenotypically non-ESBL, with seven of them (24%) showing mutations on the chromosomal ampC gene promoter at positions -42 (C-->T), -18 (G-->A), -1 (C-->T), and +58 (C-->T). A multiplex PCR for detection of plasmidic class C beta-lactamases was negative for all isolates. Different ESBLs and other mechanisms linked to extended-spectrum cephalosporin resistance are widely distributed among fecal E. coli from slaughter pigs in Spain.Research in Veterinary Science 08/2009; 88(1):83-7. · 1.65 Impact Factor -
Article: Prevalence and diversity of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in faecal Escherichia coli isolates from healthy humans in Spain.
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ABSTRACT: Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli isolates were detected in seven of 105 faecal samples from healthy humans, from two Spanish cities, during 2007. In these isolates, five ESBLs were detected, CTX-M-14 (n = 2), CTX-M-1 (n = 2), CTX-M-32 (n = 1), CTX-M-8 (n = 1) and TEM-52 (n = 1). Both bla(CTX-M-14a) (surrounded by ISEcp1-IS903) and bla(CTX-M-14b) variants (included in an integron structure) were identified in this study. This is the first time that the bla(CTX-M-8) gene and ESBLs of the CTX-M-8 group have been found in Europe and Spain, respectively. Faecal E. coli of healthy humans therefore constitute a reservoir of bla(CTX-M) genes with different surrounding genetic elements.Clinical Microbiology and Infection 07/2009; 15(10):954-7. · 4.54 Impact Factor -
Article: Streptococcosis in cultured turbot, Scopthalmus maximus (L.), associated with Streptococcus parauberis
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ABSTRACT: Several strains of Garm-positive short rod (coccibacilli)-shaped bacteria were isolated from diseased cultured turbot, Scophthalmus maximus (L.), in the North of Spain with lesions and signs of Spain with lesions and signs of streptocecosis. The α-haemolytic streptoceoccus-like organisms from diseased turbot were identified by physiological, biochemical and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis as Streptococcus parauberis. This is the first report of S. parauberis associated with fish disease.Journal of Fish Diseases 04/2006; 19(1):33 - 38. · 2.00 Impact Factor -
Article: Psychrobacter pulmonis sp. nov., isolated from the lungs of lambs.
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ABSTRACT: Unusual Gram-negative, catalase- and oxidase-positive, coccus-shaped bacteria isolated from the lungs of two lambs were characterized by phenotypic and molecular-genetic methods. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequencing studies demonstrated that the unknown isolates were genealogically highly related to each other (99.8% sequence similarity) and represent a novel subline within the genus Psychrobacter. The unknown bacterium was phylogenetically closely related to, but distinct from, Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus, Psychrobacter immobilis, Psychrobacter glacincola and Psychrobacter urativorans. The novel Psychrobacter isolates were readily distinguished from all other Psychrobacter species and other Gram-negative, oxidase-positive bacteria usually responsible for lung infections in sheep by physiological and biochemical tests. Based on molecular-genetic and phenotypic evidence, it is proposed that the unknown Psychrobacter isolates from lambs be classified as Psychrobacter pulmonis sp. nov. The type strain is strain S-606T (=CECT 5989T =CCUG 46240T).International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 04/2003; 53(Pt 2):415-9. · 2.27 Impact Factor -
Article: Antimicrobial susceptibility of corynebacteria isolated from ewe's mastitis.
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ABSTRACT: The antimicrobial susceptibility of 50 coryneform isolates from subclinical mastitis in sheep was evaluated. Arcanobacterium pyogenes (five isolates) had a susceptibility pattern distinct from the Corynebacterium species tested. The Corynebacterium isolates could be divided in two groups according to the MIC values for ciprofloxacin. Their antimicrobial susceptibility was usually unpredictable and consequently antimicrobial susceptibility tests are necessary for clinical and epidemiological purposes.International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 01/2002; 18(6):571-4. · 4.13 Impact Factor -
Article: Molecular typing by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of Spanish animal and human Listeria monocytogenes isolates.
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ABSTRACT: A total of 153 strains of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from different sources (72 from sheep, 12 from cattle, 18 from feedstuffs, and 51 from humans) in Spain from 1989 to 2000 were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The strains of L. monocytogenes displayed 55 pulsotypes. The 84 animal, 51 human, and 18 feedstuff strains displayed 31, 29, and 7 different pulsotypes, respectively, indicating a great genetic diversity among the Spanish L. monocytogenes isolates studied. L. monocytogenes isolates from clinical samples and feedstuffs consumed by the diseased animals were analyzed in 21 flocks. In most cases, clinical strains from different animals of the same flock had identical pulsotypes, confirming the existence of a listeriosis outbreak. L. monocytogenes strains with pulsotypes identical to those of clinical strains were isolated from silage, potatoes, and maize stalks. This is the first study wherein potatoes and maize stalks are epidemiologically linked with clinical listeriosis.Applied and Environmental Microbiology 01/2002; 67(12):5840-3. · 3.83 Impact Factor -
Article: Association of Pseudomonas anguilliseptica infection with ‘winter disease’ in sea bream, Sparus aurata L.
Journal of Fish Diseases 12/2001; 22(1):69 - 71. · 2.00 Impact Factor -
Article: Antimicrobial susceptibility of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from meningoencephalitis in sheep.
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ABSTRACT: The antimicrobial susceptibility to different antimicrobial agents of 41 Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from sheep with meningoencephalitis and from feedstuff was tested by both microdilution and disk diffusion methods. Both sets of isolates of L. monocytogenes were susceptible to penicillin G, amoxicillin, cephalothin, erythromycin, vancomycin, rifampicin, gentamicin, kanamycin, trimethoprim, sulfisoxazole, chloramphenicol and ciprofloxacin, but resistant to tetracycline and doxycycline (7.3 and 4.9%, respectively). Tetracycline was the most frequent resistance trait in L. monocytogenes strains of animal origin. Four strains (9.8%) also exhibited reduced susceptibility (MIC 4 mg/l) to doxycycline suggesting the need of surveillance studies to monitor the antimicrobial resistance of Listeria strains of animal origin.International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 04/2001; 17(3):215-20. · 4.13 Impact Factor -
Article: Prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) in pig faeces from slaughterhouses in Spain.
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ABSTRACT: A study to estimate the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in faecal samples from pigs at slaughterhouses in Spain was carried out between November 1998 and January 1999 with 900 samples taken from four abattoirs representing 9.7% of all pig slaughtered in 1998. Using a selective enrichment broth with vancomycin (8microg/ml), 64 samples (7.1%; 95% CI: 5.5, 9.0%) had E. faecium vancomycin-resistant strains that showed minimal inhibitory concentrations of 256microg/ml (62 strains) and 512microg/ml (two strains). Results by farm showed that 43 of the 240 pig farms represented in the sampling had at least one faecal sample with vancomycin-resistant E. faecium.Preventive Veterinary Medicine 01/2001; 47(4):255-62. · 2.05 Impact Factor -
Article: Isolation of an SHV-12 beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli strain from a dog with recurrent urinary tract infections.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 01/2001; 44(12):3483-4. · 4.84 Impact Factor -
Article: Phenotypic and genetic characterization of Lactococcus garvieae isolated in Spain from lactococcosis outbreaks and comparison with isolates of other countries and sources.
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ABSTRACT: The phenotypic and genetic analysis results for 84 isolates of Lactococcus garvieae (including 62 strains from trout with lactococcosis from four different countries, 7 strains from cows and water buffalos with subclinical mastitis, 3 from water, and 10 from human clinical samples) are presented. There was great phenotypic heterogeneity (13 different biotypes) based on the acidification of saccharose, tagatose, mannitol, and cyclodextrin and the presence of the enzymes pyroglutamic acid arylamidase and N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase. L. garvieae also exhibited high genetic diversity by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), with 19 different pulsotypes among the isolates of L. garvieae studied. Only epidemiologically related strains, like the Spanish and Italian fish isolates and the cow and water buffalo isolates, displayed a close genetic relationship by PFGE, while the strains isolated from sporadic clinical cases, like the human isolates, were genetically unrelated. Overall, a general correlation between phenotypic and genetic data was observed. Epidemiological analysis of biotype and PFGE results indicated that the trout lactococcosis outbreaks in Spain and Portugal and those in France and Italy were produced by genetically unrelated clones. In Spain, two different clones were detected; the outbreaks diagnosed from 1995 onward were produced by a clone (biotype 2, pulsotype A1) which, although genetically related, was different from the one that was responsible for the outbreaks studied between 1991 and 1994 (biotype 1, pulsotype B). The Portuguese isolate had a biochemical profile identical to that of the Spanish strain isolated from 1995 onward and is also genetically closely related to this strain (pulsotype A2). There was a close relationship between the two pulsotypes (E and F) found in the Italian isolates. The French isolate (biotype 3, pulsotype D) was not genetically related to any other L. garvieae fish isolate. These results suggest the existence of diverse infection sources for the different lactococcosis outbreaks.Journal of Clinical Microbiology 11/2000; 38(10):3791-5. · 4.15 Impact Factor -
Article: Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli strains isolated from pigs at Spanish slaughterhouses.
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ABSTRACT: Antimicrobial resistance can make the efficient treatment of bacterial infections in humans and animals more difficult. Antimicrobial use in food animals may be one of the factors contributing to resistance. The Spanish surveillance network VAV has established a baseline of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli strains from healthy pigs. Minimum inhibitory concentration and patterns of resistance to antimicrobials used in animals and humans were determined for 205 faecal strains isolated in a sampling frame of four slaughterhouses in Spain from 220 pigs in 1998. Higher levels of resistance were seen against antimicrobial agents authorised for use in food animals especially tetracycline, sulphonamides, trimethoprim and amoxycillin. All isolates were susceptible to antimicrobials employed mainly in humans such as ceftazidime, cefotaxime, imipenem, aztreonam and amikacin.International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 08/2000; 15(2):137-42. · 4.13 Impact Factor -
Article: Epidemiology and ecology of enterococci, with special reference to antibiotic resistant strains, in animals, humans and the environment. Example of an ongoing project within the European research programme.
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ABSTRACT: The objectives of the present study are to generate knowledge of the ecology and epidemiology of enterococci in the food chain by studying the following: (1) the population structure (in measures of abundance, number of vancomycin resistant strains, antibiotic resistance patterns, diversity, and stability) among enterococcal populations in different geographical regions and in different links of the food chain (2) possible transmission of strains through the food chain and between hospital environments and the food chain (3) the association between vancomycin resistance and individual strains of enterococci and (4) the diversity of the drug resistance genes in enterococci. So far, 1578 samples have been collected from different countries within the EU (Sweden, Denmark, UK and Spain), and from different habitats (pig farms, carcasses in slaughter houses, soil, manure, water, sewage, and humans). Total and vancomycin resistant enterococcal populations in each sample have been enumerated and more than 12000 isolates have been characterised by phenotyping. Representative isolates are further species identified and characterised by genotyping and MIC determination and from antibiotic resistant isolates the resistance genes are characterised.International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 06/2000; 14(4):337-42. · 4.13 Impact Factor -
Article: Antibiotic resistance monitoring: the Spanish programme. The VAV Network. Red de Vigilancia de Resistencias Antibióticas en Bacterias de Origen Veterinario.
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ABSTRACT: Antimicrobial resistance is a problem in modern public health and antimicrobial use and especially misuse, the most important selecting force for bacterial antibiotic resistance. As this resistance must be monitored we have designed the Spanish network 'Red de Vigilancia de Resistencias Antibióticas en Bacterias de Origen Veterinario'. This network covers the three critical points of veterinary responsibility, bacteria from sick animals, bacteria from healthy animals and bacteria from food animals. Key bacteria, antimicrobials and animal species have been defined for each of these groups along with laboratory methods for testing antimicrobial susceptibility and for data analysis and reporting. Surveillance of sick animals was first implemented using Escherichia coli as the sentinel bacterium. Surveillance of E. coli and Enterococcus faecium from healthy pigs was implemented in 1998. In July 1999, data collection on Salmonella spp. was initiated in poultry slaughterhouses. Additionally, the prevalence of vancomycin resistant E. faecium was also monitored. This network has specific topics of interest related to methods of determining resistance, analysis and reporting of data, methods of use for veterinary practitioners and collaboration with public health authorities.International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 06/2000; 14(4):285-90. · 4.13 Impact Factor -
Article: Risk factors for brucellosis seroprevalence of sheep and goat flocks in Spain.
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ABSTRACT: Risk factors for ovine and caprine brucellosis in the Avila region (center of Spain) were evaluated using data from a cross-sectional study of the most important diseases of small ruminants in this Spanish region between 1996 and 1997. Questionnaire data from 56 herds (35 ovine and 21 caprine) were used. Sixteen (29%) flocks (3 caprine and 13 ovine) were brucellosis-seropositive. Overall, 0.7% of sheep and 0.1% of goats were seropositive. Eleven risk factors were studied at the group level by logistic regression using flock brucellosis-status as outcome, and by linear regression using percentage of brucellosis-seropositivity as outcome. Both final models contained the same variables: contact with sheep and grazing in communal pastures as risk factors, and frequency of disinfecting practices as a protective factor.Preventive Veterinary Medicine 05/2000; 44(3-4):167-73. · 2.05 Impact Factor -
Article: Soil type as a putative risk factor of ovine and caprine paratuberculosis seropositivity in Spain.
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ABSTRACT: Relationships between soil type and ovine and caprine paratuberculosis in the Avila region (central Spain) were evaluated using data from a cross-sectional study of the most-important diseases of small ruminants in this Spanish region between 1996 and 1997. Questionnaire data from 61 herds (38 ovine and 23 caprine) and 1451 serum samples (1041 ovine and 410 caprine) were used. Herd paratuberculosis (herds were scored as positive to paratuberculosis if any of the serum samples was positive in an agar-gel immunodifussion) was the outcome of interest, whereas soil type in the municipality where farms were located was the predictor variable. Other variables related to soil and soil usage, and herd size, replacement, main food production and animal species were also introduced into the multivariable logistic regression. The final model contained only two independent variables: the predictor variable soil type (coded as two dummy variables ST-1 and ST-2) and herd size (dichotomized at the highest quartile). The estimated Odds Ratios were 25.9 (95% CI: 1.6, 411) for ST-1 (entisols as soil type) and 3.5 (95% CI: 0.3, 45) for ST-2 (inceptisols as soil type).Preventive Veterinary Medicine 02/2000; 43(1):43-51. · 2.05 Impact Factor -
Article: Development of a PCR assay for detection of Yersinia ruckeri in tissues of inoculated and naturally infected trout.
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ABSTRACT: A PCR-based method was developed for the specific detection of Yersinia ruckeri in tissues of inoculated trout and naturally infected trout. No amplification products were obtained with other yersiniae, bacterial fish pathogens, or phylogenetically related bacteria (n = 34). The sensitivity of PCR detection was 60 to 65 bacterial cells per PCR tube, which was decreased to 10 to 20 cells by hybridization with a nonradioactive probe. The PCR assay proved to be as reliable as and faster than the conventional culture method for the detection of Y. ruckeri in infected trout tissues.Applied and Environmental Microbiology 02/1999; 65(1):346-50. · 3.83 Impact Factor -
Article: Transformation of Aspergillus parasiticus using autonomously replicating plasmids from Aspergillus nidulans.
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ABSTRACT: A genetic transformation system for the aflatoxin-producing fungus Aspergillus parasiticus using two autonomously replicating plasmids from A. nidulans (ARp1 and pDHG25) is reported. Transformation frequencies using the plasmid pDHG25 were from 5 x 10(2) to 2.5 x 10(4) transformants per 10(6) viable protoplasts and microgram DNA. The stability of the plasmids in the transformants was also studied. This transformation system offers a new opportunity to clone genes related to aflatoxin production using appropriate aflatoxin-defective mutants.FEMS Microbiology Letters 12/1994; 124(1):35-41. · 2.04 Impact Factor -
Article: Application of a diphasic dialysis technique to the extraction of aflatoxins in dairy products.
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ABSTRACT: A new method is described for the extraction of aflatoxins from milk and milk products based on a diphasic dialysis technique, followed by detection and quantification of aflatoxins by TLC. Recovery was 65 to 99% for aflatoxins B1, G1, and M1, and the detection limit in milk and yogurt was .01 to .02 ppb for all aflatoxins studied. In cheese, the detection limit was .03 to .04 ppb for aflatoxins B1 and G1 and .1 ppb for aflatoxin M1. The main advantages of this technique are its simplicity; sensitivity; very economical use of reagents, thereby minimizing environmental pollution; efficiency, allowing the quick processing of a high number of samples; use by laboratories with little equipment; and a sensitivity comparable with that of much more sophisticated techniques.Journal of Dairy Science 08/1993; 76(7):1845-9. · 2.56 Impact Factor
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Complutense University of Madrid
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Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Junta de Castilla y León
Ávila de los Caballeros, Castile and Leon, Spain
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