Occurrence of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 in three wastewater treatment plants in Agadir (Morocco).

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Date publication

mai 2011

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr VAN DORSSELAER Alain


Tous les auteurs :
Eddabra R, Moussaoui W, Prevost G, Delalande F, Van Dorsselaer A, Meunier O, Scheftel JM, Mimouni R

Résumé

A total of 21 isolates of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 strains were isolated from three wastewater treatment plants in Agadir, Morocco. The isolates were analyzed by biochemical analysis, antibiogram, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and the MALDI-TOF patterns of their protein masses were compared. Over 67% of isolates were susceptible to antimicrobial agents tested and 14% proved resistant to both trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and nalidixic acid. Typing by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis with NotI digestion revealed that the V. cholerae non-O1 strains from Agadir (Morocco) have a lower level of genetic homogeneity, the restriction patterns of whole-chromosomal DNA grouped the V. cholerae O1 and V. alginolyticus strains into a separate cluster from V. metschnikovii and V. cholerae non-O1 isolates. Furthermore, to gain additional analytical accuracy and reliability in the analysis we used dendrogram based on MALDI-TOF spectral patterns generated by the BioTyper 1.1 (TM) software. All m/z signatures of all strains tested indicate that the mass spectral data contained sufficient information to distinguish between strains of V. cholerae.

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. 2011 May;27(5):1099-108.