Dissemination of Enterococcal Genetic Lineages: A One Health Perspective.
Joana M M MarquesMariana CoelhoAndressa Rodrigues SantanaDaniel PintoTeresa Semedo LemsaddekPublished in: Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
Enterococcus spp. are commensals of the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and animals and colonize a variety of niches such as water, soil, and food. Over the last three decades, enterococci have evolved as opportunistic pathogens, being considered ESKAPE pathogens responsible for hospital-associated infections. Enterococci's ubiquitous nature, excellent adaptative capacity, and ability to acquire virulence and resistance genes make them excellent sentinel proxies for assessing the presence/spread of pathogenic and virulent clones and hazardous determinants across settings of the human-animal-environment triad, allowing for a more comprehensive analysis of the One Health continuum. This review provides an overview of enterococcal fitness and pathogenic traits; the most common clonal complexes identified in clinical, veterinary, food, and environmental sources; as well as the dissemination of pathogenic genomic traits (virulome, resistome, and mobilome) found in high-risk clones worldwide, across the One Health continuum.
Keyphrases
- bioinformatics analysis
- healthcare
- public health
- human health
- genome wide
- mental health
- health information
- antimicrobial resistance
- escherichia coli
- endothelial cells
- health promotion
- pseudomonas aeruginosa
- gram negative
- risk assessment
- biofilm formation
- emergency department
- staphylococcus aureus
- body composition
- drinking water
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- acute care
- candida albicans
- transcription factor
- adverse drug
- pluripotent stem cells