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Table 2 Reported antibiotic profile of aquatic Gram-negative bacteria to carbapenem antibiotics in water matrices

From: Critical threat associated with carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria: prioritizing water matrices in addressing total antibiotic resistance

Carbapenem antibiotics

Sample source

Reported % resistance

Other resistance status reported

References

Imipenem (+ cilastatin)

Swimming pool

26

30% Cefpodoxime-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Stenström et al. (2016); Picão et al. (2013); Magalhães et al. (2016); Freitas et al. (2019); Tacao et al. (2015); Akiba et al. (2016); Skariyachan et al. (2015)

Surface freshwater

20

CTX-M-ESBLs producing Acinetobacter spp.

Wastewater effluent

17

CRE ESBLs and carbapenemase producing E. coli

Hospital effluent

20.5

KPC-producing Aeromonas spp. and Enterobacteriaceae

Sewage and receiving watera

18

blaNDM-positive plasmids

River (drinking water source)

100

Carbapenem-resistant Citrobacter

Ertapenem

Wastewater influent

61.5

ESBLS producing Gram-negative bacteria

Amine et al. (2013)

Wastewater effluent

66.6

ESBLS producing Gram-negative bacteria

River (drinking water source)

100

“Carbapenem-resistant” Citrobacter

Skariyachan et al. (2015)

100

“Carbapenem-resistant” Proteus

43

“Carbapenem-resistant” Klebsiella

Meropenem

Surface freshwater

10

CTX-M-ESBLs producing Acinetobacter spp.

Stenström et al. (2016); Akiba et al. (2016); Skariyachan et al. (2015); Amine et al. (2013); Figueira et al. (2011)

Surface water

3.9

Carbapenem-resistant Aeromonas species

Post-ozonated surface water

3.4

Clonal selection occasioned by ozones/mutation cum fluoroquinolone resistance

Hospital effluent

16.2

KPC-producing Aeromonas spp. and Enterobacteriaceae

Wastewater influent

10.2

ESBLS producing Gram-negative bacteria

Wastewater effluent

8.3

ESBLS producing Gram-negative bacteria

River (drinking water source)

42

Carbapenem-resistant Citrobacter

Doripenem

River (drinking water source)

43

Carbapenem-resistant Salmonella

Skariyachan et al. (2015)

100

Carbapenem-resistant Citrobacter

0

Carbapenem-resistant Proteus

33

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella

Faropenem

River (drinking water source)

100

Carbapenem-resistant Salmonella

Skariyachan et al. (2015)

100

Carbapenem-resistant Citrobacter

22

Carbapenem-resistant Proteus

100

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella

  1. aIsolates were pulled together from both interlinked matrices