A systematic review of antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli isolated from pigeons

Teng, Huah Sheng (2021) A systematic review of antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli isolated from pigeons. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is oftentimes considered as one of the biggest threats to modern medicine. AMR traits have been found more frequently in bacteria than ever, threatening the efficacy of antibiotics, resulting in less effective and increased complexity in treatment using antibiotics. This has resulted in monitoring resistance to antibiotics in wild animals to be more important than ever, especially in synanthropic animals. This paper presents a systematic literature review with the purpose of investigating the difference between AMR status of free-living and captive pigeons, as well as the trend of AMR over the years. This will provide us with insight as to how prevalent AMR bacteria are found in synanthropic animals such as pigeons that live close to humans, and the differences in AMR of free-living pigeons and captive pigeons. Through the analysis of 19 articles across three databases, Science Direct, SCOPUS and PubMed, a holistic view of the E.coli AMR isolated from Pigeons is achieved. The most frequently tested antibiotics for susceptibility across the papers selected for review are Ampicillin (AMP), Ciprofloxacin (CIP), Gentamicin (GEM), Tetracycline (TET), Chloramphenicol (COT) and TrimethoprimJ Sulfamethoxazole (SXT). Consequently, domestic or captive pigeons consistently have a higher AMR rate in the isolated E coli across the antibiotics mentioned. Ecoli isolated from captive pigeons are found to be resistant at 52.51 %,21.17%, 15.78%, 65.66%, 22.97 and 22.91 % respectively while E.coli isolated from free-living pigeons are 24.07%,5.87%, 7.87%, 19.80%,9.85% and 6.86% to AMP, CIP, GEM, TET, COT and SXT respectively. While these results are consistent with most findings indicating bacteria with AMR traits are more often found in captive animals compared to freeliving animals, it is still worrying to be able to isolate E coli with AMR trait from wild pigeons at such a high rate, which leads to suggest that everyone, no matter the setting is at risk of being infected by bacteria with AMR trait.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Depositing User:	Ms Nurhaznita Mahmood
Date Deposited:	04 Dec 2023 07:23
Last Modified:	04 Dec 2023 07:23
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1550

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