Limited contribution of non-intensive chicken farming to ESBL-producing Escherichia coli colonization in humans in Vietnam: an epidemiological and genomic analysis

Vinh Trung Nguyen, Dorota Jamrozy, Sébastien Matamoros, Juan J Carrique-Mas, Huynh Mai Ho, Quoc Hieu Thai, Thi Nhu Mai Nguyen, Jaap A Wagenaar, Guy Thwaites, Julian Parkhill, Constance Schultsz, Thi Hoa Ngo

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    Abstract

    Objectives: To investigate the risk of colonization with ESBL-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-Ec) in humans in Vietnam associated with non-intensive chicken farming.

    Methods: Faecal samples from 204 randomly selected farmers and their chickens, and from 306 age- and sex-matched community-based individuals who did not raise poultry were collected. Antimicrobial usage in chickens and humans was assessed by medicine cabinet surveys. WGS was employed to obtain a high-resolution genomic comparison between ESBL-Ec isolated from humans and chickens.

    Results: The adjusted prevalence of ESBL-Ec colonization was 20.0% (95% CI 10.8%-29.1%) and 35.2% (95% CI 30.4%-40.1%) in chicken farms and humans in Vietnam, respectively. Colonization with ESBL-Ec in humans was associated with antimicrobial usage (OR = 2.52, 95% CI = 1.08-5.87) but not with involvement in chicken farming. blaCTX-M-55 was the most common ESBL-encoding gene in strains isolated from chickens (74.4%) compared with blaCTX-M-27 in human strains (47.0%). In 3 of 204 (1.5%) of the farms, identical ESBL genes were detected in ESBL-Ec isolated from farmers and their chickens. Genomic similarity indicating recent sharing of ESBL-Ec between chickens and farmers was found in only one of these farms.

    Conclusions: The integration of epidemiological and genomic data in this study has demonstrated a limited contribution of non-intensive chicken farming to ESBL-Ec colonization in humans in Vietnam and further emphasizes the importance of reducing antimicrobial usage in both human and animal host reservoirs.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)561–570
    JournalJournal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
    Volume74
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 9 Jan 2019

    Keywords

    • chickens
    • genes
    • genome
    • vietnam
    • escherichia coli
    • extended-spectrum beta lactamases
    • microbial colonization

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