Diego Nobrega1, Gisele Peirano2,3, Johann D D Pitout2,3,4,5. 1. Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. dnobrega@uoguelph.ca. 2. Division of Microbiology, Alberta Precision Laboratories, Calgary, AB, Canada. 3. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Cummings School of Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada. 4. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Cummings School of Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada. 5. Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) are important pathogens causing community-acquired infections in humans, including bloodstream infections (BSIs), and may also colonize and infect animals. Our aim was to investigate associations between incidence rates (IRs) of BSIs caused by ExPEC and number of dogs and cats in communities in Calgary. METHODS: We used a well-characterized collection of blood isolates (n = 685) from Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2016). We used a combination of a seven-single-nucleotide-polymorphism quantitative PCR to type ExPEC into sequence types (STs). Calgary census data were used to estimate IRs per city community, as well as to investigate associations between number of companion animals per community, as obtained from licensing data, and IR of BSIs caused by each dominant ST. RESULTS: From the 685 isolates available, ExPEC ST131 was most prevalent (21.3% of included isolates), followed by ST73 (13.7%), ST69 (8.2%), ST95 (6.7%), and ST1193 (5.3%), respectively. Incidence of BSIs caused by ExPECs among Calgary residents was 48.8 cases per 100,000 resident-years, whereas communities had on average of 1.7 companion animals per 10 residents. No association between the number of dogs and IR of BSIs caused by ExPECs was detected for any ST. Conversely, the incidence rate of BSIs caused by ST73 was 3.6 times higher (95%CI 1.3-9.99) for every increase of 1 cat per 10 habitants in communities. CONCLUSIONS: Number of cats per habitant was positively associated with the incidence of BSIs caused by ExPEC ST73.
PURPOSE: Extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) are important pathogens causing community-acquired infections in humans, including bloodstream infections (BSIs), and may also colonize and infect animals. Our aim was to investigate associations between incidence rates (IRs) of BSIs caused by ExPEC and number of dogs and cats in communities in Calgary. METHODS: We used a well-characterized collection of blood isolates (n = 685) from Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2016). We used a combination of a seven-single-nucleotide-polymorphism quantitative PCR to type ExPEC into sequence types (STs). Calgary census data were used to estimate IRs per city community, as well as to investigate associations between number of companion animals per community, as obtained from licensing data, and IR of BSIs caused by each dominant ST. RESULTS: From the 685 isolates available, ExPEC ST131 was most prevalent (21.3% of included isolates), followed by ST73 (13.7%), ST69 (8.2%), ST95 (6.7%), and ST1193 (5.3%), respectively. Incidence of BSIs caused by ExPECs among Calgary residents was 48.8 cases per 100,000 resident-years, whereas communities had on average of 1.7 companion animals per 10 residents. No association between the number of dogs and IR of BSIs caused by ExPECs was detected for any ST. Conversely, the incidence rate of BSIs caused by ST73 was 3.6 times higher (95%CI 1.3-9.99) for every increase of 1 cat per 10 habitants in communities. CONCLUSIONS: Number of cats per habitant was positively associated with the incidence of BSIs caused by ExPEC ST73.
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