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Article

Genomic Analysis of an I1 Plasmid Hosting a sul3-Class 1 Integron and blaSHV-12 within an Unusual Escherichia coli ST297 from Urban Wildlife

by
Ethan R. Wyrsch
1,
Monika Dolejska
2,3,4 and
Steven P. Djordjevic
1,*
1
Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
2
CEITEC VETUNI, University of Veterinary Sciences Brno, 61242 Brno, Czech Republic
3
Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary Sciences Brno, 61242 Brno, Czech Republic
4
Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Brno, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Microorganisms 2022, 10(7), 1387; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10071387
Submission received: 28 June 2022 / Accepted: 6 July 2022 / Published: 10 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Virulence Genes, Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles and Genetic Diversity of Escherichia coli)
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Abstract

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Wild birds, particularly silver gulls (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) that nest near anthropogenic sites, often harbour bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics, including those considered of clinical importance. Here, we describe the whole genome sequence of Escherichia coli isolate CE1867 from a silver gull chick sampled in 2012 that hosted an I1 pST25 plasmid with blaSHV-12, a β-lactamase gene that encodes the ability to hydrolyze oxyimino β-lactams, and other antibiotic resistance genes. Isolate CE1867 is an ST297 isolate, a phylogroup B1 lineage, and clustered with a large ST297 O130:H11 clade, which carry Shiga toxin genes. The I1 plasmid belongs to plasmid sequence type 25 and is notable for its carriage of an atypical sul3-class 1 integron with mefB∆260, a structure most frequently reported in Australia from swine. This integron is a typical example of a Tn21-derived element that captured sul3 in place of the standard sul1 structure. Interestingly, the mercury resistance (mer) module of Tn21 is missing and has been replaced with Tn2-blaTEM-1 and a blaSHV-12 encoding module flanked by direct copies of IS26. Comparisons to similar plasmids, however, demonstrate a closely related family of ARG-carrying plasmids that all host variants of the sul3-associated integron with conserved Tn21 insertion points and a variable presence of both mer and mefB truncations, but predominantly mefB∆260.

1. Introduction

Antibiotics have been used to control infectious agents in human and veterinary medicine and in agriculture since the 1930s and underpin modern infection control strategies. Although resistance to antibiotics is a natural phenomenon, the scale and rate of resistance has risen over the past 100 years, presumably driven by human activity.
The environmental accumulation of expired and unmetabolized antibiotics, plus other pharmaceutical waste, is of particular concern when looking at the persistence and evolution of antimicrobial resistance [1,2]. Environmental antimicrobial residues have been detected in over 70 countries worldwide, underscoring severe limitations in the current pollution mitigation strategies. Sulphonamides, macrolides, quinolones and tetracyclines are notable pollutants in this regard [3]. While animal production is considered a leading contributor to environmental antibiotic and metal residues, waste from hospitals, assisted living facilities, municipal and industrial waste sites contribute significantly. Subinhibitory concentrations of antibiotics in sediments and aquatic environments are considered sufficient to influence microbial ecology and drive antibiotic resistance [4].
Sulphonamides have a long and varied history, serving as a key antibacterial agent during the development of antimicrobial chemotherapy [5]. However, the effectiveness of this drug family in Enterobacteriaceae was compromised by the widespread dissemination of the class 1 integron. There a four well described sulphonamide resistance genes found in Escherichia coli, including sul1, sul2, sul3 and sul4. All four sul genes are localized on mobile genetic elements and have an association with the class 1 integron, a DNA recombination system that captures and expresses a myriad of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs).
The sustained use of sulphonamides, co-trimoxazole (a combination treatment comprised of sulphamethoxazole and trimethoprim) and antiseptics has almost certainly influenced the genetic composition of the clinical class 1 integron, a key element that harbors ARGs and is a core component of larger genetic structures known as complex resistance regions (CRRs). The structure of the archetypal clinical class 1 integron includes a 5′ conserved segment (5′-CS) comprising the integron integrase (intI1) and a 3′-CS comprising the sulphonamide resistance gene sul1 and a fused but functional biocide resistance gene qacE∆1. Between the 5′-CS and the 3′-CS resides a variable region that in clinical scenarios has captured over 130 resistance gene cassettes [6], although historically, most clinical class 1 integrons harbor a dfr gene cassette encoding resistance to trimethoprim and/or an aad gene cassette encoding resistance to streptomycin/spectinomycin. The class 1 integron is a highly successful, globally disseminated element. Its success can be attributed to the following points: (i) its ability to capture, arrange and express diverse resistance gene cassettes; (ii) its low fitness cost in Enterobacteriaceae [7]; and (iii) co-selection based on the carriage of qacE∆1. In most instances, class 1 integrons are central components in CRRs, although their structures continually evolve through insertion element activity [8,9] and homologous recombination [6]. Despite the bans imposed on growth promotion in many countries and improved antimicrobial stewardship practices, ARGs, biocide resistance genes and metal resistance genes are co-selected [10] in the gastrointestinal microbiomes of food animals [11,12,13], wastewater [14] and in environmental microbial populations exposed to antimicrobial residues [12,15]. Plasmids carrying complex resistance regions with combinations of resistance genes and, increasingly, virulence associated genes are well described in humans and food animals [16,17,18,19,20].
Sound antimicrobial stewardship practices have been evidenced in Australian agriculture by numerous reports describing Enterobacteriaceae, such as E. coli, with limited carriage of extended spectrum β-lactamase and fluoroquinolone resistance genes, and an absence of genes encoding carbapenemases [20,21,22,23]. This is consistent with the bans placed on the use of carbapenems and fluoroquinolones in animal production and judicious use of extended spectrum β-lactams. Despite this, MDR E. coli are a frequent occurrence in Australian intensive production systems, with the resistance genes predominantly harbored by plasmids [22,24,25]. These plasmids have persisted for long periods and have likely adapted to the diverse E. coli that host them [26].
Nonetheless, investigations of urban gulls and pigeons repeatedly produced Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica that carry genes encoding resistance to fluoroquinolones, carbapenems and extended spectrum β-lactams [27,28,29,30,31]. In Australia, MDR E. coli have also been recovered from penguins [32] and bats [33], indicating that enterobacterial flora carried by wildlife species that intersect with human populations readily harbor ARG combinations that mirror those circulating in veterinary and human clinical environments. The sul3 gene has been reported globally and often in association with E. coli sourced from intensive animal production but also frequently in humans [34]. sul3 has also been linked with pandemic lineages of E. coli including ST95, encompassing various lineages renown for causing extraintestinal human (urinary tract infection, sepsis and meningitis) and poultry disease [20,35,36]. Its association with CRRs on ColV virulence plasmids, such as pCERC3 [37] in commensal E. coli from healthy humans [38], is concerning. sul3, first described in E. coli from swine [39], has since been found to be globally distributed in swine [40], humans [34], poultry [41,42] and wild birds [43]. The gene forms part of a sul3-encoding conserved segment (sul3-CS) that replaced the sul1-containing 3′-CS that is typical of class 1 integrons [37]. Several variants of the sul3-CS are known [34] and multiple E. coli sequence types have been reported to carry it, including pandemic lineages. HI2 [22,24,44] and I1 [34] plasmids are noted vehicles for the transmission of sul3 containing class 1 integrons. Here, we describe an I1 plasmid, hosted in an E. coli sampled from an Australian gull, which carries a sul3-class 1 integron embedded within a CRR encoding an IS26-associated blaSHV-12 and we perform comparisons to the related plasmids hosting variants of the same CRR.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Isolate Sequences

The bacterial whole-genome sequence analyzed in this study has been published previously as part of a larger study of Escherichia coli isolates from Australian silver gulls in 2012 [45]. Briefly, isolate E. coli CE1867 was sourced from a cloacal sample taken from a gull chick (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) at Five Islands off the coast of New South Wales, Australia. The isolate was taken from MacConkey agar supplemented with cefotaxime (2 mg/L) and its susceptibility to a set of antimicrobials was tested as previously described [45]. Short-read whole genomes sequencing was performed on a NovaSeq Illumina platform and assembly was performed using Shovill v1.1.0 (https://github.com/tseemann/shovill, accessed on 1 November 2021). Plasmid sequence pCE1867-A is available under GenBank accession CP094826.1.

2.2. Reference Sequences and Metadata

Reference ST297 whole genome sequences were sourced from EnteroBase (http://enterobase.warwick.ac.uk/, accessed on 7 January 2022), along with the associated metadata, serotyping and phylotyping data [46]. A range of completed I1 plasmid sequences, selected semi-randomly to capture the range of available plasmid sequence types with as much metadata as possible, were sourced from PLSDB (https://ccb-microbe.cs.uni-saarland.de/plsdb/, accessed on 3 September 2019), along with the plasmid multi-locus sequence type data and metadata [47]. Other relevant I1 plasmid sequences were sourced from the GenBank nucleotide database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/, accessed on 2 November 2021).

2.3. Gene Identification, Annotation and Sequence Typing

Resistance genes were identified using ABRicate v1.0.1 (https://github.com/tseemann/abricate/, accessed on 29 October 2020) with default settings, in combination with the ResFinder database (https://bitbucket.org/genomicepidemiology/resfinder_db/src/master/, accessed on 23 December 2020) [48]. The class 1 integrase gene intI1 (from CP059289) and insertion sequence IS26 were identified using BLASTn (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi, accessed on 4 November 2021), with reference sequences sourced from the GenBank nucleotide database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/, accessed on 4 November 2021). All other insertion sequence elements were identified using ISfinder [49]. Plasmid multi-locus sequence typing was confirmed using services from the Centre for Genomic Epidemiology (https://cge.cbs.dtu.dk/services/, accessed on 4 November 2021) [50].

2.4. Phylogenetics

A chromosomal single nucleotide variant (SNV) phylogeny was generated using the EnteroBase SNP project function. Plasmid sequence SNV phylogenetics were performed with parsnp v1.2 from the Harvest software suite [51] using -x (recombination filter) and -c flags, and otherwise default settings. All trees were visualized using iTOL v6.5.8 (https://itol.embl.de/, accessed on 7 January 2022) [52].

2.5. Data Visualization

Linear BLASTn comparisons were visualized with EasyFig v2.2.2 (https://mjsull.github.io/Easyfig/, accessed 2 September 2015) [53], with a 1000 bp size cut-off. Circular BLASTn comparisons were visualized with BRIG v0.95 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/brig/, accessed 3 January 2018) [54]. Annotations were generated and visualized using SnapGene v6.0.0.0 (https://www.snapgene.com/, accessed on 25 November 2021).

3. Results

Here, we describe a pST25 I1 plasmid (pCE1867-A, 115,157 bp) from E. coli CE1867 (ST297; phylogroup B1; serotype O45:H11), taken from a Five Islands gull, isolated on cefotaxime-supplemented media. Phenotypically, the isolate was resistant to ampicillin, streptomycin, sulphonamides, chloramphenicol, cefalotin, nalidixic acid, ceftazidime, and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid. It also encoded a parC E62K substitution [45]. The only other plasmid detected in the isolate was an F plasmid (F29:A-:B-), with no critical virulence factors identified. The I1 plasmid was notable for the presence of a Tn21 transposon hosting a sul3-type integron with the widespread mefBΔ260 truncation (generated through IS26 activity), plus the capture of blaSHV-12, again through apparent IS26 activity, and a Tn2 transposon mobilizing blaTEM-1.
To determine the phylogenetic placement of the host chromosome, a range of ST297 isolates (n = 132), selected based on the presence of the H11 fliC allele, were sourced from EnteroBase and placed into a SNV tree using the EnteroBase SNP project capabilities. A wide range of Shiga-toxigenic O130:H11 sequences were present within the database, primarily from plant and bovine sources in the USA and mostly positive for stx2, followed by stx1 or both. Some isolates, although part of the major O130 clade, were O-non typeable or typed as D6. The isolate described here, CE1867, was a non-STEC representative of ST297 that was placed as a semi-novel clade separated from the major H11 lineage and was distinct from the other Australian isolates (Figure 1).
To determine the phylogenetic placement of plasmid pCE1867-A, a range of I1 plasmids (n = 70) were sourced from PLSDB for inclusion in a whole-plasmid SNV tree. ARG, intI1 and IS26 gene presence was determined for these plasmids and mapped alongside the phylogeny (Figure 2). These data indicated that pST69 plasmid pND11_107, isolated from a porcine E. coli, in the USA in 2007, was the most closely related plasmid amongst a small group of plasmids closely related to the pST2 branch of the overall phylogeny. This small group of plasmids all encoded sul3-type integrons with matching psp-estX-aadA2-cmlA-aadA1 cassette profiles. Plasmids pCAZ590 (chicken, Germany) and pESBL2082-IncI (chicken, Netherlands) (MW390515.1) were each typed as pST95 and encoded blaSHV-12. In a somewhat unusual observation, a single pST3 plasmid, pMB5876 (chicken, United Kingdom) (MK070495.1) hosting this same gene profile was also identified.
A detailed annotation of pCE1867-A alongside BRIG comparisons to closely related pND11_107 and pCAZ590, and a separate linear comparison to pND11_107 is provided in Figure 3A,B respectively. Novel regions of pCE1867-A included the Tn2 transposon and an ISSso4 insertion into the I1 backbone region.
It was noted that pCE1867-A encoded the additional sequence captured alongside blaSHV-12 that pCAZ590 was lacking within the IS26 boundary, suggesting this transposable unit was either captured in a separate event, or that further IS26 activity had removed part of the initially captured sequence observed in pCAZ590. A BLASTn analysis of the IS26-blaSHV-12-IS26 region against the GenBank nucleotide database suggested that it is an internationally distributed element. In the case of pCE1867-A, the Tn2 insertion has occurred into one of the bordering IS26 elements, truncating it to 392 bp. The remaining plasmid backbone is well conserved between pCE1867-A and pND11_107, outside of the IS element activity and a short stretch of hypothetical ORFs appearing in pND11_107.
A BLASTn analysis against the GenBank nucleotide database of the Tn21 insertion point into the I1 plasmid revealed another six plasmids that hosted Tn21 at precisely the same location, indicating that this plasmid group has been found in Australia, the USA, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Details of these plasmids are shown in Table 1, all of which were sourced from agricultural samples (pigs and chickens) ranging from years 2002 to 2017, isolated from E. coli and Salmonella enterica. Plasmid sequence type data indicated that these plasmids are all from the same subclade, comprised of I1 pST25, pST26, pST69 and pST95.
Amongst the integron structures in the 11 plasmids, alterations to the integron cassette profiles did exist but were limited (Figure 4). Notably, the pST3 plasmid hosted dfrA16 and blaCARB-2 cassettes. Several plasmids also captured tetAR, with p20760-1 capturing two copies. Some but not all copies of tetAR amongst the dataset were associated with Tn1721. pESBL2082-IncI (pST95) and pMB5876 (pST3) had large inversions within the complex resistance structure, with the former lacking the intI1 gene entirely. It was notable that the mer operon mobilized by Tn21 was either deleted in most examples or carried insertions of other resistance genes. Amongst the ten plasmids that were closely related (pST95, pST26, pST25, pST69), the Tn21 insertion point was conserved with major alterations to the structure occurring at the mer-associated end of the transposon. The outlier to these data, pMB5876, had its insertion site close to this same position but was notably different, encoding an additional 1628 bp of the apparent plasmid backbone sequence between the Tn21 repeat and the insertion point consistent amongst the other plasmids. Nine of the eleven plasmids all shared the mefBΔ260 deletion; however, pP136-2 harbored a full copy of mefB and pND11_107 carried mefBΔ48. Given the range of identical complex resistance structures presented here, and the presence of a complete mefB gene, the data suggest that the widely distributed mefBΔ260 truncation size originated from this plasmid lineage. Lastly, an incongruity between the plasmid phylogeny and plasmid MLST data was noted, where one pST25 plasmid was more closely related to pST69 than the two other (identical) pST25 plasmids sitting on the nearest branch.

4. Discussion

Wildlife, particularly birds, are vectors for the distribution of Enterobacterial lineages that acquire ARGs on mobile genetic elements [27,55,56,57]. Despite the importance these species play in the AMR problem, our understanding of their role is still limited, constituting a major knowledge gap. In Australia, we have begun to shed light on the role played by the silver gull in the carriage and transmission of E. coli [28,29,30]. Recently, we identified an astonishing variety of 170 multiple drug-resistant E. coli lineages comprising 96 STs and representing all major phylogroups, establishing Five Islands, one of the largest breeding islands in the world, as a major site for meropenem-, cefotaxime- and ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli lineages [45]. While E. coli lineages that display non-susceptibility to extended-spectrum β-lactams and fluoroquinolones are a hallmark of gulls sourced from different regions of Australia, lineages resistant to carbapenems so far seem restricted to samples from the Five Islands site [45]. The feeding behavior of wild bird populations lends itself to the exposure to extremely diverse enterobacterial populations found in municipal sewage plants and wastewater from hospitals, healthcare facilities and abattoirs, as well as agricultural fields carrying animal manures. Wild and urban-adapted birds are, thus, likely to acquire E. coli from humans and agricultural animals and then provide the opportunity for the transfer of ARGs via recombination, insertion element and integrase activity, as well as plasmid and phage transfer. It was notable to find a multiple antimicrobial resistant E. coli ST297 (phylogroup B1) isolate within that sample set, particularly as it was hosting an I1 plasmid with a clear agricultural association in other countries. Most of the ST297 H11 E. coli sequences in Enterobase are serotype O130:H11 and carry Shiga toxin genes. The gull ST297 in our study is O45:H11, lacked Shiga toxin genes, and is phylogenetically removed from other ST297 with an H11 flagella type. Based on the current data, E. coli ST297 (i) has a broad host range capacity, inhabiting cattle [58,59], pigs [59,60], poultry/poultry meat [61,62] and has been isolated from irrigation water [63] and food [64]; (ii) is serologically diverse; (iii) is capable of acquiring diverse plasmids and virulence genes; and (iv) is a human pathogen lineage. Collectively, these observations suggest that ST297 is a generalist lineage and a potential threat to the health of humans and animals.
Here, we have reported a comparatively benign ST297 strain that carried pCE1867-A, an I1 pST25 plasmid with the closest similarities from a phylogenomic perspective to pST69 plasmid pND11_107 [65], isolated from porcine E. coli from the USA in 2007. These two plasmids also cluster with pST95 plasmids pCAZ590 [66] and pESBL2082-IncI [67]. This small group of plasmids all encoded sul3-type integrons with matching psp-estX-aadA2-cmlA-aadA1 cassette profiles. Plasmids pCE1867-A, pCAZ590 and pESBL2082-IncI also encoded blaSHV-12. In a somewhat unusual observation, a single more distantly related pST3 plasmid, pMB5876, hosting this same gene profile was also identified to carry sul3 [68]. When expanding the search beyond plasmids from PLSDB, 11 I1 plasmids in total were identified in public repositories that carry sul3. While the majority of these I1 plasmids carry a sul3-class 1 integron with the globally dominant mefBΔ260 variant, one carried a unique mefBΔ48 variant and another a full copy of the mefB gene. In Australia, sul3-class 1 integrons have also been described in indistinguishable ColV plasmids in ST131 isolates from swine and humans [69] and pCERC3, a ColV plasmid isolated from the feces of a healthy human in Sydney [37], and mobilized by IS26 onto HI2 plasmids in Australian swine [22]. Most of these examples are also associated with the mefBΔ260 deletion. All the class 1 integrons described here are hosted in Tn21, as was originally described by Moran et al. (2016) [37]. Furthermore, all but one of these Tn21 elements have been modified by the IS element and transposon activity, with most structures lacking the merA operon or with it modified in some way. The exception was pP136-2, which was additionally the only plasmid to encode a full mefB gene. This study strengthens the argument that the replacement of the 3′-CS of class 1 integrons by the sul3-CS occurred in the context of Tn21. A possible scenario is IntI1-mediated recombination at one end and an IS26-mediated event at the other to generate the sul3-CS, as it is commonly observed.

5. Conclusions

The range of isolation dates, locations, and significant variability in the presence of additional transposons and resistance genes indicates that these plasmids have been in circulation for some time, and based on the current sampling data, primarily in agricultural settings. We provide the first report of the plasmid in an avian wildlife host. This highlights the danger of AMR-encoding plasmids that circulate in economically important animal species being acquired by urban wildlife species where they may capture clinically relevant resistance genes. This observation is significant, considering Australia has always enforced strict controls on the use of clinically important antibiotics in food production systems, with the intent to prevent the introduction and persistence of genes such as blaSHV-12 in integron-based resistance structures within agricultural settings.

Author Contributions

E.R.W. performed the analysis, created the figures, and drafted the manuscript. M.D. drafted the manuscript. S.P.D. assisted with the analysis design, drafted the manuscript, and provided supervision. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This project was partly funded by the Australian Centre for Genomic Epidemiological Microbiology (AusGEM), a collaborative partnership between the NSW Department of Primary Industries and the University of Technology Sydney. These results are helping to inform the OUTBREAK decision support system, funded by the Medical Research Future Fund Frontier Health and Medical Research Program (MRFF75873). The study was partially funded by Internal Grant Agency of VETUNI (IGA 218/2021/FVHE) and Czech Science Foundation (18-23532S) to M.D.

Data Availability Statement

Data utilized for this manuscript are available under GenBank accession CP094826 or from publicly available repositories.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Mid-point rooted phylogenetic tree of ST297 H11 sequences. STEC O130:H11 clade is highlighted in blue, with the presence of either stx1 or stx2 noted as a red marker at the edge of each isolate.
Figure 1. Mid-point rooted phylogenetic tree of ST297 H11 sequences. STEC O130:H11 clade is highlighted in blue, with the presence of either stx1 or stx2 noted as a red marker at the edge of each isolate.
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Figure 2. Plasmid SNV phylogeny (mid-point rooted) of I1 plasmids (n = 71). Data presented include plasmid multi-locus sequence typing data, presence of intI1 and IS26, and ARGs, followed by available plasmid metadata (bacterial host species, isolation source, country/region, and year of isolation). Darker colors indicate a positive hit for ARGs. Plasmids relevant to this study are highlighted yellow. Tree scale is presented in SNVs per site.
Figure 2. Plasmid SNV phylogeny (mid-point rooted) of I1 plasmids (n = 71). Data presented include plasmid multi-locus sequence typing data, presence of intI1 and IS26, and ARGs, followed by available plasmid metadata (bacterial host species, isolation source, country/region, and year of isolation). Darker colors indicate a positive hit for ARGs. Plasmids relevant to this study are highlighted yellow. Tree scale is presented in SNVs per site.
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Figure 3. Visualized annotations and BLASTn comparisons between closely related I1 plasmids. (A) Circularized and annotated schematic of pCE1867-A with colored rings representing BLASTn alignments to pCAZ590 (green) and pND11_107 (blue). (B) Linear comparison of pND11_107 and pCE1867-A annotations, with BLASTn alignments in grey/red between.
Figure 3. Visualized annotations and BLASTn comparisons between closely related I1 plasmids. (A) Circularized and annotated schematic of pCE1867-A with colored rings representing BLASTn alignments to pCAZ590 (green) and pND11_107 (blue). (B) Linear comparison of pND11_107 and pCE1867-A annotations, with BLASTn alignments in grey/red between.
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Figure 4. Whole-plasmid SNV phylogeny (mid-point rooted) of sul3-encoding I1 plasmids with linear comparisons of complex resistance regions. Tree scale is presented in SNVs per site. BLASTn similarity scale is shown in the bottom left, with red indicating an inversion of sequence.
Figure 4. Whole-plasmid SNV phylogeny (mid-point rooted) of sul3-encoding I1 plasmids with linear comparisons of complex resistance regions. Tree scale is presented in SNVs per site. BLASTn similarity scale is shown in the bottom left, with red indicating an inversion of sequence.
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Table 1. Details of sul3-encoding I1 plasmids.
Table 1. Details of sul3-encoding I1 plasmids.
Plasmid (Accession)pSTHostSourceCountryIsolation DatemefB Size (bp)AMR GenesSize (bp)
pMB5876
(MK070495)		3E. coliAvian
(Chicken)		BelgiumUnknownΔ260aadA1, aadA2, dfrA16, cmlA, blaCARB-2, sul3, tetA, blaSHV-12117,108
pESBL2082-IncI
(MW390515)		95E. coliRetail meat
(Chicken)		NetherlandsUnknownΔ260aadA1, aadA2, cmlA, sul3, tetA, blaTEM-1, blaSHV-12120,106
pCAZ590
(LT669764)		95E. coli
ST371		Avian
(Chicken)		Germany2011Δ260aadA1, aadA2, cmlA, sul3, tetA, blaSHV-12117,387
p20761-1
(CP051408)		26S. enterica HavanaPorcineUSA2002Δ260aadA1, aadA2, cmlA, sul3107,262
p20760-1
(CP051411)		26S. enterica HeidelbergPorcineUSA2002Δ260aadA1, aadA2, cmlA, sul3, tetA(x2), aph(3′)-Ia, mer operon125,574
p30148-1
(CP051354)		26S. enterica WorthingtonPorcineUSA2003Δ260aadA2, cmlA, sul3104,600
pP136-2
(CP080225)		26E. coliPorcineFrance20131230 (full)aadA1, aadA2, cmlA, sul3, mer103,673
pRHB30-C09_2
(CP057303)		25E. coliPorcineUK2017Δ260aadA1, aadA2, cmlA, sul3, tetA, mer120,503
pRHB30-C10_2
(CP057294)		25E. coliPorcineUK2017Δ260aadA1, aadA2, cmlA, sul3, tetA, mer120,503
pND11_107
(HQ114281)		69E. coliPorcineUSA2007Δ48aadA1, aadA2, cmlA, sul3107,138
pCE1869-A
(CP094826)		25E. coli
ST297		Avian
(Wild Gull)		Australia2012Δ260aadA1, aadA2, cmlA, sul3, blaTEM-1, blaSHV-12115,157
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