Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence Genes
Distribution in Trueperella
pyogenes Isolated from Dairy Cows with Clinical Mastitis in
Liaoning of China
Yuru Guo§, Peng Qiu§,
Hongyu Su, Yao Li, Yang Guo, Zehui Zhang, Yaochuan Liu, Mingchun Liu
and Dexian Zhang*
1Key Laboratory of Livestock Infectious Diseases in Northeast China, Ministry of Education, College
of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Shenyang Agricultural
University, Shenyang 110866, P.R. China
*Corresponding author:
zhangdx@syau.edu.cn
Abstract
Trueperella pyogenes is
considered as a causative agent of many infections, such as mastitis,
endometritis, pneumonia, liver abscessation.
T. pyogenes can express several virulence genes such as
plo,
fimA,
cbpA,
nanH and nanP contributing
to its pathogenicity. The aim of this study was to provide an investigation
about antimicrobial resistance, as well as virulence genes distribution and gene
cassettes among T. pyogenes isolates
from dairy cows with clinical mastitis. The susceptibility to different
antimicrobial agents was determined by the Broth Microdilution Method, and
virulence genes and gene cassette was detected by polymerase chain reactions
(PCRs). There are 10.49% (17/162) of milk samples from dairy cows with mastitis
were positive for T. pyogenes. High
levels of resistance were found to clindamycin (23.53%), oxytetracycline
(23.53%), ciprofloxacin (47.06%), sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (100%).
Moreover, all isolates carried class I integrons, and gene cassette arrays were
aadA9 (2/17) or
aadA5-dfrA17 (3/17).
Finally, all isolates harbored plonanH and
fimA genes, but other genes encoding virulence genes including
fimC,
fimE, nanP and
cbpA are ranged from 47.06% to 88.23%.
Our study showed T. pyogenes isolates
from dairy cows with clinical mastitis were susceptible to β-lactams. In
addition, all seven virulence genes occurred in isolates, and
plo,
nanH, and
fimA gene showed a significantly higher frequency in
T. pyogenes of the Liaoning Province,
China.
To Cite This Article:
Guo Y, Qiu P, Su H, Li Y, Guo Y, Zhang Z, Liu Y,
Liu M and Zhang D, 2021. Antimicrobial
resistance and virulence genes distribution in
trueperella pyogenes isolated from dairy cows with clinical mastitis
in Liaoning of China. Pak Vet J, 41(3): 329-334. http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2021.040