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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2006, p. 3940-3948, Vol. 72, No. 6
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02770-05
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Molecular Epidemiology of Ceftiofur-Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Dairy Calves

Sarah C. Donaldson, Beth A. Straley, Narasimha V. Hegde, Ashish A. Sawant, Chitrita DebRoy, and Bhushan M. Jayarao*

Department of Veterinary Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

Received 23 November 2005/ Accepted 18 March 2006

Healthy calves (n = 96, 1 to 9 weeks old) from a dairy herd in central Pennsylvania were examined each month over a five-month period for fecal shedding of ceftiofur-resistant gram-negative bacteria. Ceftiofur-resistant Escherichia coli isolates (n = 122) were characterized by antimicrobial resistance (disk diffusion and MIC), serotype, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis subtypes, beta-lactamase genes, and virulence genes. Antibiotic disk diffusion assays showed that the isolates were resistant to ampicillin (100%), ceftiofur (100%), chloramphenicol (94%), florfenicol (93%), gentamicin (89%), spectinomycin (72%), tetracycline (98%), ticarcillin (99%), and ticarcillin-clavulanic acid (99%). All isolates were multidrug resistant and displayed elevated MICs. The E. coli isolates belonged to 42 serotypes, of which O8:H25 was the predominant serotype (49.2%). Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis classified the E. coli isolates into 27 profiles. Cluster analysis showed that 77 isolates (63.1%) belonged to one unique group. The prevalence of pathogenic E. coli was low (8%). A total of 117 ceftiofur-resistant E. coli isolates (96%) possessed the blaCMY2 gene. Based on phenotypic and genotypic characterization, the ceftiofur-resistant E. coli isolates belonged to 59 clonal types. There was no significant relationship between calf age and clonal type. The findings of this study revealed that healthy dairy calves were rapidly colonized by antibiotic-resistant strains of E. coli shortly after birth. The high prevalence of multidrug-resistant nonpathogenic E. coli in calves could be a significant source of resistance genes to other bacteria that share the same environment.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Veterinary Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802. Phone: (814) 863-5939. Fax: (814) 863-6140. E-mail: bmj3{at}psu.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2006, p. 3940-3948, Vol. 72, No. 6
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02770-05
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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