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Abstract
Salmonella is one of the important pathogens causing acute gastroenteritis, and antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella raises a critical public health concern. Canals in Bangkok, Thailand, play a vital role as sources of agricultural and daily water usage. By employing whole genome sequencing to analyse 351 Salmonella genomes isolated between 2016 and 2020, we expanded the understanding of the characteristics and antimicrobial resistance properties of Salmonella enterica found in Bangkok canals, an underrepresented biome in research. Salmonella Agona was the dominant serotype, while S. Typhimurium and its monophasic variant were periodically found. Seven new sequence types (STs) were identified, including STs 11,346, 11,347, 11,348, 11,349, 11,350, 11,351, and 11,352. Seven chromosomal-mediated gene mutations and 50 antimicrobial resistance genes were detected. The three most common resistance genes were tet(A), blaTEM-1B, and qnrS1. The tet(X4) was first identified in the Salmonella population in Thailand, and mcr-3.1 was also detected. In total, 39.0% of the strains were potentially multidrug-resistant. The strains carried double amino acid substitutions in GyrA and ParC, and a strain with GyrA substitutions and qnrS1 exhibited the strongest resistance to nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin. Most of the ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, and cefotaxime-resistant strains (66.7%) harboured blaCTX-M-55. Col(pHAD28) was the predominant plasmid replicon type. Phylogenetic analysis of Salmonella STs 34 and 213 from canal water and the strains from databases showed the possibility of circulation of STs 34 and 213 between canal water and humans in Thailand and worldwide. These findings shed light on the circulation of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens in the environmental water and advocate for incorporating environmental sampling into comprehensive AMR surveillance programmes within a One Health framework.
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The journal is identical in scope to Environmental Microbiology, shares the same editorial team and submission site, and will apply the same high level acceptance criteria. The two journals will be mutually supportive and evolve side-by-side.
Environmental Microbiology Reports provides a high profile vehicle for publication of the most innovative, original and rigorous research in the field. The scope of the Journal encompasses the diversity of current research on microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities, interactions and evolution and includes, but is not limited to, the following:
the structure, activities and communal behaviour of microbial communities
microbial community genetics and evolutionary processes
microbial symbioses, microbial interactions and interactions with plants, animals and abiotic factors
microbes in the tree of life, microbial diversification and evolution
population biology and clonal structure
microbial metabolic and structural diversity
microbial physiology, growth and survival
microbes and surfaces, adhesion and biofouling
responses to environmental signals and stress factors
modelling and theory development
pollution microbiology
extremophiles and life in extreme and unusual little-explored habitats
element cycles and biogeochemical processes, primary and secondary production
microbes in a changing world, microbially-influenced global changes
evolution and diversity of archaeal and bacterial viruses
new technological developments in microbial ecology and evolution, in particular for the study of activities of microbial communities, non-culturable microorganisms and emerging pathogens.