WATER SUPPLY, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
Production of the beta-lactamase enzymes is the primary resistance mechanism caused by uncounscious consumption of the beta-lactam group of antibiotics in Enterobacteriaceae. Combined disc tests were performed for extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) confirmation (n =15) and class C beta-lactamase (AmpC) confirmation (n = 6) after the disc diffusion test was applied in total of 27 Enterobacteriaceae strains from Western Black Sea, Lake Manyas and Lake Iznik. Plasmid-mediated bla(TEM), bla(SHV), bla(CTX-M), bla(IMP) genes, CIT, MOX, FOX gene groups and chromosomal bla AmpC gene of E. cloacae were investigated with polimerase chain reaction (PCR). Three E. coli strains were shown to produce ESBL while one E.coli and three E. cloacae strains were confirmed for AmpC production by disc tests. bla(TEM) (n= 2), bla(SHV) (n = 4), bla(CTX-M) (n = 2), bla(TEM) + bla(SHV) (n = 1), bla(CTX-M) + CIT (n = 1), bla(SHV )+ CIT (n = 1) genes and/or gene groups were detected in eleven E. coli isolates; while bla(SHV) (n = 3) was observed in three Klebsiella strains (two K.oxytoca and one K.pneumoniae). With this study, aquatic environments of Turkey were proved to be the reservoirs of antibiotic resistance determinants of plasmid-mediated beta-lactamases in environmental wild-type bacteria transmitted by horizontal gene transfer.