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    Emerging Tools for Aquatic Pathogen Discovery and Description

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    Symposium 7 (Dis. of Ben. Invertebr.)ย Early mortality syndrome is an infectious disease with a bacterial etiologyLoc Tran, Kevin Fitzsimmons and Donald V. LightnerPolicy, phylogeny, and the parasite Grant D. Stentiford, Stephen W. Feist, David M. Stone, Edmund J. Peeler and David BassThe Next Generation of Crustacean Health: Disease Diagnostics Using Modern TranscriptomicsK. Fraser Clark, Spencer J. Greenwood Environmental DNA as a tool for detection and identification of aquatic parasites: known unknowns and just plain unknownsHanna Hartikainen, Grant D. Stentiford, Kelly Bateman, Stephen W. Feist, David M. Stone, Matt Longshaw, Georgia Ward, Charlotte Wood, Beth Okamura and David Bas

    Non-Target Effects on Biological Pesticides Transgenic Crops

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    The impact of herbicide tolerant crops on non-target organismsRamon Albajes, Marina S. Lee and Agnรจs ArdanuyYour Right to Know What You Eat: On the Occurrence of Viable Bacillus thuringiensis in Commercial Food ProductsBrian FedericiEnvironmental risk assessment of genetically engineered crops for spidersMichael Meissle, Jรถrg RomeisConclusions from 10 years of accumulated evidence from publicly funded field trials research with Bt-maize in GermanyStefan Rausche

    Potential of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated From Dangke and Indonesian Beef as Hypocholesterolaemic Agent

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    Lactobacillus fermentum strains were successfully isolated from dangke which was a fresh cheese-like product originating from Enrekang, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. In addition, Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus acidophillus were isolated from beef. This study aimed to investigate the ability of those 8 LAB strains from dangke and beef in lowering cholesterol level by using in vitro study. Strain of Lactic acid bacteria used were L. fermentum strains (A323L, B111K, B323K, C113L, C212L), L. plantarum strains (IIA-1A5 and IIA-2C12), and L. acidophillus IIA-2B4. Variables observed were identification of Bile Salt Hydrolase (BSH) gene by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), BSH activity and cholesterol assimilation. Phylogenetic tree indicated homology of L. plantarum IIA-IA5 was 98% to BSH gene of L. plantarum Lp529 with access code of FJ439771 and FJ439775 obtained from GenBank. The results demonstrated that eight strains of LAB isolated from dangke and beef that potentially showed cholesterol-lowering effects were L. fermentum B111K and L. plantarum IIA-1A5. L. fermentum B111K was able to assimilate cholesterol by 4.10% with assimilated cholesterol of 0.13 mg in 1010 cells. In addition, L. plantarum IIA-1A5 had BSH gene and BSH activity, as well as the ability to assimilate cholesterol by 8.10% with assimilated cholesterol of 0.06 mg in 1010 cells. It is concluded that L. fermentum B111K and L. plantarum IIA-1A5 were strains that showed cholesterol-lowering effects

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    Bacteria homologus to Aeromonas capable of microcystin degradation

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    Water blooms dominated by cyanobacteria are capable of producing hepatotoxins known as microcystins. These toxins are dangerous to people and to the environment. Therefore, for a better understanding of the biological termination of this increasingly common phenomenon, bacteria with the potential to degrade cyanobacteria-derived hepatotoxins and the degradative activity of culturable bacteria were studied. Based on the presence of the mlrA gene, bacteria with a homology to the Sphingopyxis and Stenotrophomonas genera were identified as those presenting potential for microcystins degradation directly in the water samples from the Sulejรณw Reservoir (SU, Central Poland). However, this biodegrading potential has not been confirmed in in vitro experiments. The degrading activity of the culturable isolates from the water studied was determined in more than 30 bacterial mixes. An analysis of the biodegradation of the microcystin-LR (MC-LR) together with an analysis of the phylogenetic affiliation of bacteria demonstrated for the first time that bacteria homologous to the Aeromonas genus were able to degrade the mentioned hepatotoxin, although the mlrA gene was not amplified. The maximal removal efficiency of MC-LR was 48%. This study demonstrates a new aspect of interactions between the microcystin-containing cyanobacteria and bacteria from the Aeromonas genus.The authors would like to acknowledge the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, COST Action ES 1105 โ€œCYANOCOST - Cyanobacterial blooms and toxins in water resources: Occurrence, impacts and managementโ€ for adding value to this study through networking and knowledge sharing with European experts and researchers in the field. The Sulejรณw Reservoir is a part of the Polish National Long- Term Ecosystem Research Network and the European LTER site

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    Physico-chemical factors and bacteria in fish ponds

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    Analyses of pond water and mud samples show that nitrifying bacteria (including ammonifying bacteria, nitrite bacteria, nitrobacteria and denitrifying bacteria) are in general closely correlated with various physico-chemical factors, ammonifying bacteria are mainly correlated with dissolved oxygen; denitrifying bacteria are inversely correlated with phosphorus; nitrite bacteria are closely correlated with nitrites, nitrobacteria are inversely correlated with ammoniac nitrogen. The nitrifying bacteria are more closely correlated with heterotrophic bacteria. Nitrobacteria are inversely correlated with anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria. The correlation is quite weak between all the nitrite bacteria which indicates that the nitrite bacteria have a controlling and regulating function in water quality and there is no interdependence as each plays a role of its own. The paper also discusses how the superficial soil (pond mud down to 3.5 cm deep) and different layers of the mud affect the biomass of bacteria. The study shows that the top superficial layer (down to 1.5 cm deep) is the major area for decomposing and converting organic matter

    ์„ธ๊ท ์„ฑ๋ฒผ์•Œ๋งˆ๋ฆ„๋ณ‘์›๊ท ์˜ GluS-GluR Two-Component System์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ

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    ํ•™์œ„๋…ผ๋ฌธ(๋ฐ•์‚ฌ) -- ์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต๋Œ€ํ•™์› : ๋†์—…์ƒ๋ช…๊ณผํ•™๋Œ€ํ•™ ๋†์ƒ๋ช…๊ณตํ•™๋ถ€, 2021.8. Hwang Ingyu.Burkholderia glumae, just like any other microorganism, has a variety of adaptable biological systems that provide insight into how these organisms evolve, adapt, and function in a variety of environments. Despite the complexity of some of these systems, this work sheds light on the two-component regulatory systems (TCSs) paradigm, which serves as the basis for information flow throughout bacteria. Random mutagenesis of B. glumae BGR1 with mini-Tn5 resulted in a cell filamentation in Luriaโ€“Bertani (LB) medium in one of the mini-Tn5 derivatives. Molecular and genetic analysis revealed that gluR (BGLU 1G13360), a two-component system response regulator gene, carried the mini-Tn5 insertional mutation. A putative sensor kinase, gluS (BGLU 1G13350), was found downstream of gluR, prompting an exploratory study of the GluS-GluR TCS functional roles in B. glumae BGR1. The gluR mutant, unlike the gluS mutant formed filamentous cells in LB medium, was sensitive to 42C, and the expression of genes responsible for cell division and cell-wall (dcw) biosynthesis were elevated at transcription levels compared to the wild type, classifying GluR as an essential regulatory factor for cell division. TCSs regulate a variety of bacterial activities via an organized system in which the sensor kinase passes environmental cues to the response regulator, which decodes an appropriate cellular response. Accordingly, this study identified glutamine and glutamate as extrinsic cues that initiate cell division in B. glumae via GluR. Notably, GluR, and not GluS was also required for elicitation of the hypersensitive response in tobacco leaves, full virulence in host rice plants, and detoxification of hydrogen peroxide; all of which are important factors in the pathogenicity, survival, and fitness of B. glumae. GluR directly interacts with the type III secretion system and a manganese catalase gene katM to promote virulence and fitness of the pathogen. This study further showed that GluS-GluR is a functional TCS pair regulating ฮฒ โ€“ lactam antibiotic resistance of B. glumae, but through a distinct mechanism. The inactivation of gluS or gluR conferred resistance against ฮฒ-lactam antibiotics, whereas the wild type was susceptible to those antibiotics. This phenotype was supported by the significantly increased expression of genes encoding metallo-ฮฒ-lactamases and penicillin-binding proteins in the TCS mutants compared to those in the wild type. Overall, this study adds to our understanding of how TCSs affect bacteria's sophisticated molecular systems, gives a new perspective on antibiotic resistance processes, and may provide a novel therapeutic approach for the successful control of bacterial pathogens.Burkholderia glumae๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฏธ์ƒ๋ฌผ ์œ ๊ธฐ์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ์ง„ํ™”, ์ ์‘ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™์  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ผ๋ถ€์˜ ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์„ธ๊ท ์—์„œ์˜ ์ •๋ณด์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ํ๋ฆ„์˜ ๊ธฐ์ดˆ์  ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” two-component regulatory systems (TCS)์˜ ํŒจ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค์ž„์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค. mini-Tn5๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ B. glumae BGR1์˜ mini-Tn5 ๋ฌด์ž‘์œ„ ๋Œ์—ฐ๋ณ€์ด ์œ ๋„์ฒด ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” Luriaโ€“Bertani (LB) ๋ฐฐ์ง€์—์„œ ํ•„๋ผ๋ฉ˜ํŠธ ๋ชจ์–‘์˜ ์„ธํฌํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋Œ์—ฐ๋ณ€์ด ์œ ๋„์ฒด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ„์ž ๋ฐ ์œ ์ „์  ๋ถ„์„์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด two-component regulatory systems ๋ฐ˜์‘ ์กฐ์ ˆ ์œ ์ „์ž์ธ gluR (BGLU 1G13360)์— mini-Tn5 ์‚ฝ์ž… ๋Œ์—ฐ๋ณ€์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค. ์ด gluR ์˜ ์ „์‚ฌ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ TCS ๊ฐ์ง€-์ธ์‚ฐํ™”ํšจ์†Œ์ธ gluS (BGLU 1G13350)๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜์–ด B. glumae BGR1์˜ GluS-GluR TCS ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ์—ญํ• ์„ ์ถ”์ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. gluR ๋Œ์—ฐ๋ณ€์ด๋Š” LB ๋ฐฐ์ง€์—์„œ ํ•„๋ผ๋ฉ˜ํŠธ ์„ธํฌ๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•œ gluS ๋Œ์—ฐ๋ณ€์ด์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ 42C์— ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์„ธํฌ ๋ถ„์—ด ๋ฐ ์„ธํฌ๋ฒฝ (dcw) ์ƒํ•ฉ์„ฑ์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ์ „์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐœํ˜„์„ wild type์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋˜์—ˆ๊ธฐ์— GluR์„ ์„ธํฌ ๋ถ„์—ด์˜ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์กฐ์ ˆ ์ธ์ž๋กœ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. TCS๋Š” ๊ฐ์ง€-์ธ์‚ฐํ™”ํšจ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง€ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฐ˜์‘ ์กฐ์ ˆ๊ธฐ์— ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์„ธํฌ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ์œ ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์„ธ๊ท  ํ™œ๋™์„ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„  B. glumae์—์„œ GluR์ด ์„ธํฌ ๋ถ„์—ด์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์™ธ๋ถ€ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋กœ ๊ฐ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€๋ฏผ๊ณผ ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€๋ฉ”์ดํŠธ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, GluR์€ ๋‹ด๋ฐฐ ์žŽ์—์„œ ๊ณผ๋ฏผ์„ฑ ๋ฐ˜์‘์˜ ์œ ๋„์™€, ์ˆ™์ฃผ์ธ ๋ฒผ์—์„œ์˜ ์™„์ „ํ•œ ๋…์„ฑ๋ฐœํ˜„ ๋ฐ ์‹๋ฌผ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์–ด๊ธฐ์ž‘์ธ ๊ณผ์‚ฐํ™”์ˆ˜์†Œ์˜ ํ•ด๋…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์€ B. glumae์˜ ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ, ์ƒ์กด ๋ฐ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ ์‘์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์— GluR์ด ๊ด€์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. GluR์€ III ํ˜• ๋ถ„๋น„ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋ฐ ๋ง๊ฐ„ ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™”ํšจ์†Œ ์œ ์ „์ž katM๊ณผ ์ง์ ‘ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ณ‘์›๊ท ์˜ ๋…์„ฑ ๋ฐ ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” GluS-GluR์ด B. glumae์˜ ฮฒ- ๋ฝํƒ ํ•ญ์ƒ์ œ ๋‚ด์„ฑ์„ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์„œ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋ณ„๋˜๋Š” ๋ฉ”์ปค๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•ญ์ƒ์ œ ๋‚ด์„ฑ์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค. gluS ๋˜๋Š” gluR์˜ ๋น„ํ™œ์„ฑํ™”๋Š” ฮฒ-lactam ํ•ญ์ƒ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‚ด์„ฑ์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, wild type์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ•ญ์ƒ์ œ์— ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ˜•์€ wild type์— ๋น„ํ•ด TCS ๋Œ์—ฐ๋ณ€์ด์ฒด์—์„œ ฮฒ-๋ฝํƒ ๋ถ„ํ•ดํšจ์†Œ ๋ฐ ํŽ˜๋‹ˆ์‹ค๋ฆฐ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์„ ์ฝ”๋”ฉํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ์ „์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐœํ˜„์ด ํ˜„์ €ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ, ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” TCS๊ฐ€ ์„ธ๊ท ์˜ ์ •๊ตํ•œ ์กฐ์ ˆ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•˜๊ณ , ํ•ญ์ƒ์ œ ๋‚ด์„ฑ ๋ฐ˜์‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ด€์ ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ณ‘์›์„ฑ ์„ธ๊ท ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์ œ์–ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์น˜๋ฃŒ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ œ๊ณต ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER I. THE GLUR RESPONSE REGULATOR IS REQUIRED FOR CELL DIVISION IN THE RICE PATHOGEN BURKHOLDERIA GLUMAE 11 ABSTRACT 12 INTRODUCTION 14 MATERIALS AND METHODS 17 I. Bacterial strains and growth conditions 17 II. DNA manipulation and sequencing 17 III. Rescue mini-Tn5, Tn3-gusA, and marker-exchange mutagenesis 18 IV. Bacterial growth and viability assay 19 V. Transmission electron microscopy 20 VI. Quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction 20 VII. Constitutive expression of ftsA gene 21 VIII. Growth and viability of B. glumae strains at 42oC 22 IX. Environmental stimuli driving GluR responses 22 X. Glutamate utilization in B. glumae 23 XI. Scanning electron microscopy 23 XII. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) 24 XIII. Statistical analysis 25 RESULTS 26 I. Identification of a TCS critical for normal cell division of B. glumae BGR1 26 II. Aberrant cell division due to a mutation in gluR 27 III. Direct control of genes involved in cell division by GluR 28 IV. Alleviation of aberrant cell morphology by constitutive expression of ftsA in the gluR mutant 29 V. Influence of glutamate and glutamine on GluR-mediated control of cell division 30 VI. Heat sensitivity due to altered fts gene expression in the gluR mutant 31 DISCUSSION 32 LITERATURE CITED 37 CHAPTER II. MUTATIONS IN THE TWO-COMPONENT GLUS-GLUR REGULATORY SYSTEM CONFER RESISTANCE TO ฮ’-LACTAM ANTIBIOTICS IN BURKHOLDERIA GLUMAE 65 ABSTRACT 66 INTRODUCTION 67 MATERIALS AND METHODS 69 I. Bacterial strains and growth conditions 69 II. -lactam susceptibility test 69 III. Viability assay 69 IV. -lactamase activity assay 70 V. Detection of penicillin-binding proteins 70 VI. Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction 71 VII. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) 71 VIII. Statistical analysis 72 RESULTS 73 I. Mutations in GluS-GluR TCS associated with -lactam antibiotic resistance in B. glumae 73 II. Cell viability of B. glumae strains amidst -lactam antibiotics 74 III. Increased -lactamase activity in GluS-GluR TCS mutants was responsible for the acquired resistance to carbenicillin 75 IV. BGLUS35 and BGLUR133 possessed elevated expression of PBPs 77 DISCUSSION 79 LITERATURE CITED 84 CHAPTER III. GLUR RESPONSE REGULATOR REGULATES TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM AND BACTERIAL FITNESS IN BURKHOLDERIA GLUMAE 107 ABSTRACT 108 INTRODUCTION 110 MATERIALS AND METHODS I. Bacterial strains and growth conditions 113 II. DNA manipulation, sequencing, and mutagenesis 113 III. HR elicitation, virulence assay, and bacterial population 114 IV. Toxoflavin assay 115 V. Autoinducer assay 115 VI. Preparation of plant extracts 115 VII. RNA extraction and qRT-PCR 116 VIII. Hydrogen peroxide sensitivity assay 116 IX. Catalase activity assay 117 X. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) 116 XI. Protein in-vitro degradation assay 118 XII. Statistical analysis 118 RESULTS 119 I. Impact of GluS-GluR mutations on the virulence of B. glumae 119 II. GluR and Lon protease differently regulate T3SS in B. glumae 120 III. Mutations of gluR halts T3SS gene induction in in-vivo 122 IV. Lon protease does not degrade but activates gluR and inhibits hrpB 123 V. GluR mediates resistance to H2O2 killing in B. glumae 124 VI. GluR directly activates the activities of a manganese catalase, katM 125 VII. katM mutant is sensitive to exogenous H2O2 126 VIII. katM mutant showed attenuated virulence 127 DISCUSSION 128 LITERATURE CITED 134 APPENDIX 167 ABSTRACT IN KOREAN 169 ACKNOWLEGMENT 172๋ฐ•

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    The National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) for Enteric Bacteria is a collaboration among the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA-CVM), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The primary purpose of NARMS at CDC is to monitor antimicrobial resistance among foodborne enteric bacteria isolated from humans. Other components of the interagency NARMS program include surveillance for resistance in enteric bacterial pathogens isolated from foods, conducted by the FDA-CVM (http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/SafetyHealth/AntimicrobialResistance/NationalAntimicrobialResistanceMonitoringSystem/default.htm), and resistance in enteric pathogens isolated from animals, conducted by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=66-12-05-08). Many NARMS activities are conducted within the framework of CDC's Emerging Infections Program (EIP), Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) Program, and the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet). In addition to surveillance of resistance in enteric pathogens, the NARMS program at CDC also includes public health research into the mechanisms of resistance, education efforts to promote prudent use of antimicrobial agents, and studies of resistance in commensal organisms. Before NARMS was established, CDC monitored antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella, Shigella, and Campylobacter through periodic surveys of isolates from a panel of sentinel counties. NARMS at CDC began in 1996 with prospective monitoring of antimicrobial resistance among clinical non-typhoidal Salmonella and Escherichia coli O157 isolates in 14 sites. In 1997, testing of clinical Campylobacter isolates was initiated in the five sites participating in FoodNet. Testing of clinical Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi and Shigella isolates was added in 1999. Since 2003, all 50 states have been forwarding a representative sample of non-typhoidal Salmonella, Salmonella ser. Typhi, Shigella, and E. coli O157 isolates to NARMS for antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and 10 FoodNet states have been participating in Campylobacter surveillance. This annual report includes CDC's surveillance data for 2008 for non-typhoidal Salmonella, typhoidal Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter and E. coli O157 isolates. Data for earlier years are presented in tables and graphs when appropriate. Antimicrobial classes defined by Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) are used in data presentation and analysis. CLSI classes constitute major classifications of antimicrobial agents, e.g., aminoglycosides and cephems. This report also includes the World Health Organization's categorization of antimicrobials of critical importance to human medicine. The table includes only antimicrobials that are tested in NARMS.List of tables -- List of figures -- List of boxes -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- NARMS working group -- What is new in the NARMS report for 2008 -- Introduction -- WHO categorization of antimicrobial agents -- Summary of NARMS 2008 surveillance data -- Surveillance and laboratory testing methods -- Results -- References -- NARMS publications in 2008 -- Appendix A. Summary of Escherichia coli resistance surveillance pilot study, 2008C5215511-A.Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-66).CDC. National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria (NARMS): Human Isolates Final Report, 2008. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, 2010
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