Isolation and characterization of Clostridium difficile from a small survey of wastewater, food and animals in New Zealand.

Abstract:

:The objective of this study was to undertake a microbiological survey of foods, animal faeces and wastewater samples for Clostridium difficile, and determine the genotypes and antimicrobial susceptibilities of isolates. A total of 211 samples were tested for C. difficile using culture methods. Thirteen toxigenic C. difficile isolates were obtained; ten from wastewater samples, one each from pig and duck faeces and another from a raw meat product. Eight PCR-ribotypes (RTs) were identified, including two novel RTs (878 and 879). Single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis using WGS data for all isolates provided greater discrimination between C. difficile isolates within the same RT and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) profiles. All C. difficile isolates were found to be susceptible to the first-line human antimicrobials used to treat C. difficile infection. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: This is the first study to report the isolation of Clostridium difficile from animals, food and wastewater in New Zealand (NZ) and provides important data with respect to ribotypes and multilocus sequence typing profiles, whole genome sequence and antimicrobial susceptibilities. The results highlight the need for further investigations into the epidemiology of C. difficile in NZ and to elucidate the role of the environmental and food sources as transmission routes of human infection.

journal_name

Lett Appl Microbiol

authors

Rivas L,Dupont PY,Gilpin BJ,Cornelius AJ

doi

10.1111/lam.13238

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-01-01 00:00:00

pages

29-35

issue

1

eissn

0266-8254

issn

1472-765X

journal_volume

70

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