Anaerobic conditions unmask antimicrobial resistance

  29 June 2021

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Gram negative enteropathogens is an urgent threat to the antibiotic formulary. These taxa undergo anaerobic respiration within the host, yet little is known about how anaerobic conditions influence antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The facultative enteropathogen Vibrio cholerae was chosen as a model to determine the impact of anaerobic growth on AMR because cholera is one of the few non-invasive diarrhoeal diseases for which antibiotics are indicated, albeit conditionally. V. cholerae isolates from a single outbreak were tested for resistance by minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) under aerobic and anaerobic conditions against clinically relevant antibiotics. Here we show that the odds of classifying isolates as resistant under anaerobic compared to aerobic conditions increased over 20 times for ciprofloxacin and 50 times for azithromycin, yet for doxycycline, all isolates remained below the breakpoint for resistance.

Further reading: BioRXiv
Author(s): A. Creasy-Marrazzo, M.M. Saber, M. Kamat, L. S. Bailey, F. Qadri, K. B. Basso, B. J. Shapiro, E. J. Nelson
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