Captive collared peccary carries ESBL-producing diarrheagenic Escherichia coli pathotypes

Collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) roam the forests of natural areas in America. Wild collared peccary appears to be a carrier for bacteria associated with infections humans and animals, however, presence diarrheagenic E. coli (DEC) pathotypes has not been studied captive peccary. This study aimed prevalence DEC, susceptibility antibiotics, frequency β-lactamase genes (ESBL) faeces. DEC strains were identified 44.4% (N=56) coli-carrying under study. The following identified: ETEC (35.7%), EAEC (28.6%), STEC (21.4%) EPEC (14.3%). Most belonged clade I (58.9%). genetic marker rfbO157 was found any strain. Of strains, 67.9% (N=38) considered multidrug resistant susceptible ampicillin (75%) nor carbenicillin (51.8%). combination blaTEM + blaCTX blaSHV (6 respectively) most frequent among strains. It is concluded that are carriers carry blaTEM, ampicillin. Given current efforts Wildlife Management Units (WMU) reintroduce into areas, these act as therefore potential source gastrointestinal disease animals.