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ArticleAntonie van Leeuwenhoek2022

Genome analysis of probiotic bacteria for antibiotic resistance genes.

Mehdi Fatahi-Bafghi, Sara Naseri, Ali Alizehi

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15citing papers in PubMed
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mehdi Fatahi-BafghiDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Mehdifatahi@ssu.ac.ir.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4665-9447
Sara NaseriZoonotic Diseases Research Center, Department of Food Hygiene and Safety, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Ali AlizehiInternational Campus, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health Services · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To date, probiotic bacteria are used in the diet and have various clinical applications. There are reports of antibiotic resistance genes in these bacteria that can transfer to other commensal and pathogenic bacteria. The aim of this study was to use whole-genome sequence analysis to identify antibiotic resistance genes in a group of bacterial with probiotic properties. Also, this study followed existing issues about the importance and presence of antibiotic resistance genes in these bacteria and the dangers that may affect human health in the future. In the current study, a collection of 126 complete probiotic bacterial genomes was analyzed for antibiotic resistance genes. The results of the current study showed that there are various resistance genes in these bacteria that some of them are transferable to other bacteria. The tet(W) tetracycline resistance gene was more than other antibiotic resistance genes in these bacteria and this gene was found in Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus. In our study, the most numbers of antibiotic resistance genes were transferred with mobile genetic elements. We propose that probiotic companies before the use of a micro-organism as a probiotic, perform an antibiotic susceptibility testing for a large number of antibiotics. Also, they perform analysis of complete genome sequence for prediction of antibiotic resistance genes.

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsProbioticsBacteriaDrug Resistance, BacterialDrug Resistance, MicrobialGenes, BacterialGenome, BacterialHumansLactobacillusAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntibiotic resistance geneARG-ANNOTProbioticResfinderWhole genome sequencing

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