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Article

Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-Resistant Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci in Nostrils and Buccal Mucosa of Healthy Camels Used for Recreational Purposes

by
Vanessa Silva
1,2,3,4,
Manuela Caniça
5,6,
Vera Manageiro
5,6,
Newton Verbisck
7,
María Teresa Tejedor-Junco
8,
Margarita González-Martin
8,
Juan Alberto Corbera
8,*,
Patrícia Poeta
1,4,9,10,*,† and
Gilberto Igrejas
2,3,4,†
1
Microbiology and Antibiotic Resistance Team (MicroART), Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
2
Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
3
Functional Genomics and Proteomics Unit, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
4
Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV-REQUIMTE), University NOVA of Lisboa, 1099-085 Lisboa, Portugal
5
National Reference Laboratory of Antibiotic Resistances and Healthcare Associated Infections (NRL-AMR/HAI), Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health Dr Ricardo Jorge, Av. Padre Cruz, 1649-016 Lisbon, Portugal
6
Centre for the Studies of Animal Science, Institute of Agrarian and Agri-Food Sciences and Technologies, Oporto University, 4051-401 Oporto, Portugal
7
Embrapa Beef Cattle, Campo Grande 79106-550, Brazil
8
Research Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35001 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
9
CECAV—Veterinary and Animal Research Centre, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
10
Associate Laboratory for Animal and Veterinary Science (AL4AnimalS), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Animals 2022, 12(10), 1255; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12101255
Submission received: 27 March 2022 / Revised: 8 May 2022 / Accepted: 9 May 2022 / Published: 13 May 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Serological and Molecular Epidemiology in Animals)
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Animal-associated staphylococci have been isolated in human infections. Therefore, these strains may pose a zoonotic risk in addition to constituting a reservoir for antimicrobial resistance genes. In this study, we isolated Staphylococcus aureus and other species of staphylococci from camels used for recreational activities in the Canary Islands. Most S. aureus lacked the antimicrobial resistance genes, but some staphylococci species carried the mecA gene which confers resistance to methicillin. The carriage of this gene conferring resistance to methicillin in staphylococci isolated from camels may be a public health concern since there is a risk of bacterial transmission to humans during recreational activities. Furthermore, since the Canary Islands are the only camel exporter to the European Union, camels could constitute a source of zoonotic agents to the rest of the European countries.

Abstract

Several different species of animals host staphylococci as normal microbiota. These animals can be a source of staphylococci zoonotic infections. People with routine or occupational exposure to infected/colonized animals are at risk of a potential transmission. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the presence of S. aureus and other staphylococci in camels used for recreational purposes as well as their antimicrobial resistance, virulence factors and genetic lineages. A total of 172 samples were collected from 86 healthy camels (nose and mouth) from different farms located in the Canary Islands, Spain. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed against 14 antimicrobial agents. The presence of virulence genes was studied by PCR. Multilocus sequence typing, spa typing and agr typing were performed in all S. aureus isolates. From the 86 camels tested, 42 staphylococci were isolated, of which there were 11 S. aureus, 13 S. lentus, 12 S. sciuri, 3 S. xylosus, S. epidermidis, S. hominis and S. chromogenes. Staphylococci isolates were resistant to penicillin, ciprofloxacin, clindamycin and fusidic acid. All S. aureus isolates harbored the hla, hlb and hld virulence genes. S. aureus isolates were ascribed to three sequence types (STs) and three spa types. All S. aureus isolates belonged to agr type III. Camels from Gran Canaria used in recreational purposes have a moderate prevalence of S. aureus and other coagulase-negative staphylococci. Nevertheless, S. aureus isolates are susceptible to almost all antibiotics tested.

1. Introduction

Camelids belong to the Camelidae family which comprises the genera Camelus, Lama and Vicugna [1]. The genera Camelus includes the species Camelus dromedarius, which is the one-humped camel, and the species Camelus bactrianus, the two-humped camel [1,2]. C. dromedarius is common in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, while C. bactrianus is dispersed in Central Asia, China, East Kazakhstan and Southern Russia [2,3]. In 2020, the camel population was 3,552,527 worldwide, with C. dromedarius accounting for approximately 90% of all camels [1,4]. Although Africa contains the largest population of the one-humped dromedary, since 1989, the Canary Islands have been the only region that provides dromedary camels in the European Union [5]. In 2013, the population of camels in the Canary islands was just under 1300 [6]. Camels were mainly used as a source of meat, milk, transportation, agricultural work and racing [7]. However, recently, camel-based tourism has become one of the main attractions in several countries which includes camel riding, trekking, excursions and picture taking [8]. These camel–human close interactive encounters may lead to the transmission of zoonotic agents [5]. Several studies have shown that camels are carriers of many important pathogens such as Salmonella, extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterococcus spp. and Staphylococcus aureus [4,5,9,10,11].
The genus Staphylococcus currently comprises 81 species and subspecies [12]. Both S. aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci, such as S. epidermidis, are commensals that colonize the skin and mucosal membranes of humans and several animal species [13]. Studies have shown that camels can also be colonized by S. aureus, reporting high carriage rates of around 55% [14,15]. The presence of other species of staphylococci, particularly methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS), has not yet been studied much in camels [14]. Furthermore, the prevalence of S. aureus and MRS has not yet been studied in camels from Europe. Staphylococci are also opportunistic pathogens that can acquire resistance to several or all classes of antimicrobials, threatening the ability to treat common infections [16]. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is part of the World Health Organization global priority list [17]. Contrary to coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS), S. aureus produces a wide range of toxins that can act as virulence factors [18]. Nevertheless, lately, there was an emergence of nosocomial infections caused by CoNS which was more often observed in vulnerable patients with an increased risk for infections [19]. Staphylococci have been isolated from a wide range of hosts and environments including humans, livestock, pets, wild animals, air and surface waters [20,21,22,23,24,25]. Animal-associated staphylococci have been reported as infectious agents in humans. These strains pose a zoonotic risk in addition to constituting a reservoir for antimicrobial resistance genes [26]. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the presence of staphylococci in one-humped dromedary camels from the Canary Islands and to characterize the antimicrobial resistance, virulence and genetic lineages of the isolates.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Animals and Bacterial Isolates

Samples were collected from the nostrils and buccal mucosa of 86 one-humped camels from the Canary Islands, making a total of 172 samples as previously described [27]. Samples were collected from 37 camels from Gran Canaria in June 2019 and from 49 camels from Fuerteventura in November 2019 (Figure 1). All camels were domesticated and used in recreational activities. The swabs were placed into tubes containing BHI broth (LiofilChem, Via Scozia, Italy) with 6.5% of NaCl and incubated at 37 °C for 24 h [28]. Then, 150 µL of inoculum was seeded onto Oxacillin Resistance Screening Agar Base Selective Supplement agar (ORSAB; Oxoid, Basingstoke, UK) supplemented with 2 mg/L of oxacillin and Baird-Parker agar (Oxoid, Basingstoke, UK) plates for methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS) and S. aureus isolation [28]. Up to 4 colonies showing different morphological characteristics were isolated from each plate. Confirmation and identification of staphylococci genera and species were conducted using MALDI-TOF MS [29].

2.2. Phenotypic Antimicrobial Resistance

Susceptibility to antimicrobial agents was carried out according to the Kirby–Bauer disk diffusion method against the following 14 antimicrobials (in µg/disk): penicillin G (1 unit), cefoxitin (30), chloramphenicol (30), ciprofloxacin (5), clindamycin (2), erythromycin (15), fusidic acid (10), gentamicin (10), kanamycin (30), linezolid (10), mupirocin (200), tetracycline (30), tobramycin (10) and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (1.25/23.75). The results were analyzed according to the criteria of the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) 2018 except for kanamycin that followed the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) 2017 guidelines [30,31]. The reference strain S. aureus ATCC25923 was used as a quality control strain.

2.3. Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence Genes

DNA extraction was performed as previously described [32]. According to the phenotypic resistance profiles, each isolate was screened for the presence of resistance genes, which included the penicillin resistance gene blaZ, the methicillin resistance gene mecA, the macrolide and licosamide resistance genes ermA, ermB, ermC, ermT, mphC, msr(A/B), lnuA, lnuB, vgaA and vgaB and the fusidic acid resistance genes fusB, fusC and fusD (Table S2).
All isolates were subjected to PCR for the detection of genes encoding Panton–Valentine leukocidin PVL (lukF/lukS-PV), hemolysins (hla, hlb and hld), exfoliative toxins (eta and etb) and toxic shock syndrome toxin (tst). Additionally, the scn gene, which is the marker of the immune evasion cluster (IEC) system, was also investigated (Table S2).

2.4. Molecular Typing

The polymorphic X of the S. aureus protein A gene (spa) was amplified as previously described [33]. The results were analyzed with the Ridom StaphType software (version 1.5, Ridom GmbH, Würzburg, Germany) to determine the spa type of each isolate. All S. aureus were subjected to multilocus sequence typing (MLST) by amplifying the 7 housekeeping genes (arcC, aroE, glpF, gmk, pta, tpi and yqiL) by PCR followed by sequencing as described by Enright et al. [34]. The sequences were submitted to the MLST database (https://pubmlst.org/organisms/staphylococcus-aureus, accessed on 22 November 2021) to obtain the sequence types (STs) and clonal complexes (CCs). S. aureus isolates were characterized by agr typing (I–IV) by multiplex PCR [35].

3. Results and Discussion

The close contact between animals and humans offers favorable conditions for bacterial transmission [36]. The transmission of antimicrobial-resistant staphylococci has been shown between dogs and their owners and livestock and farm workers [37,38]. Therefore, a possible human-to-camel-to-human bacterial transmission may occur during recreational activities. In this study, we analyzed 172 samples recovered from 86 camels from the Canary Islands. A total of 42 staphylococci were isolated from the camels, with 21 staphylococci isolated from nasal samples and the other 21 from oral samples. It has been shown that the animal staphylococcal microbiota varies between anatomical sites due to the different microenvironmental conditions [39,40]. From the 86 camels tested, 11 (12.8%) S. aureus were isolated from 10 camels, since 1 camel carried 2 different strains of S. aureus (Table 1). S. aureus isolates were recovered from six oral samples and five nasal samples. A total of 4 (10.8%) S. aureus isolates were recovered from the 37 camels from Gran Canaria and 7 (14.3%) isolates were isolated from the 49 camels from Fuerteventura (Table S1). As far as we know, this is the first study reporting the presence of S. aureus and CoNS in camels in Europe. Nevertheless, a few studies have been conducted in healthy camels from the African and Asian continents. The frequency of S. aureus isolated from camels in our study is similar to other studies conducted in Egypt and Nigeria and higher than a recent study conducted in Tunisia [4,41,42]. However, two other studies conducted on healthy camels from Saudi Arabia and Algeria reported a much higher frequency of S. aureus of 56.2% and 53%, respectively [14,15]. Since most studies conducted on staphylococci from camels showed a prevalence of almost 100% of CoNS colonization, we decided to isolate only methicillin-resistant CoNS (MRCoNS) [14,42]. A total of 31 (18%) MRCoNS were recovered from the 172 samples and identified as S. lentus (n = 13), S. sciuri (n = 12), S. xylosus (n = 3), S. epidermidis, S. chromogenes and S. hominis. From the 100 camels tested in the study by Alzohairy, 8% were positive for MRCoNS, which is a lower frequency than that obtained in our study [14]. Co-carriage of two different species of staphylococci was identified in six animals and co-carriage of three species in two camels. The pattern of co-carriage was as follows: S. aureus/S. sciuri (n = 5), S. aureus/S. chromogenes (n = 1), S. aureus/S. lentus/S. sciuri (n = 1) and S. epidermidis/S. hominis/S.lentus (n = 1).
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed in all isolates followed by the screening for antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes. Furthermore, all S. aureus isolates were typed by MLST, spa typing and agr typing. All S. aureus isolates were susceptible to all antibiotics tested except for isolate VS3144, which showed resistance to ciprofloxacin, in accordance with the study of Chehida et al. [4]. Other studies conducted in Asia and Africa revealed a higher number of antimicrobial resistances in S. aureus from camels [14,15,43]. These differences in results may be due to the different legislation for administering antibiotics to animals established in each continent and country. Furthermore, in our study, none of the S. aureus isolates showed methicillin resistance, which contrasts with the high frequency of MRSA found in other studies from Asia and Africa [14,41]. Regarding the presence of virulence genes, all S. aureus isolates carried the hla, hlb and hld genes that encode for the alfa-, beta- and delta-hemolysins, which is not surprising since these toxins are present in most S. aureus strains, mainly because they are located in very stable regions of chromosomal DNA [44]. Similar results were found in the study of Chehida et al. [4]. However, most studies conducted on camels did not investigate the presence of resistance or virulence genes in staphylococci isolates. S. aureus isolates were ascribed to three STs (ST7345, ST88 and ST8) and three spa types (t1773, t3221 and t008), showing a low diversity of clonal lineages. Furthermore, S. aureus ST7345 and t1773 were isolated from both Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura camels, suggesting either a dominance of these lineages in camels or in the study region. S. aureus ST7345 was first described in this study and is a double loci variant of ST130 with mutations in the aroE and pta loci. S. aureus ST130 is frequently associated with ruminants but it has also been isolated from humans and wildlife, usually associated with mecC-carrying MRSA isolates [45,46,47]. The spa type t1773 was previously reported to be associated with CC130 and common among farm animals and as a frequent cause of ovine mastitis [48,49,50,51]. Three S. aureus isolates were ascribed to ST88 which is a relatively rare lineage distributed globally among MRSA and MSSA [52]. This clonal lineage is highly related to community-acquired MRSA strains and is predominant in sub-Saharan Africa [53]. Nevertheless, and in accordance with our results, both S. aureus ST130 and ST88 were the predominant clones among samples of healthy camels in Algeria [15]. Furthermore, isolates belonging to ST130 have also been detected in camel’s milk and fermented milk [54,55]. One S. aureus isolate was ST8-t008 which is highly related to the CA-MRSA epidemic clone USA300 [21]. Since S. aureus ST8-t008 is a classical human pathogen, a possible human-to-animal transmission may have occurred.
Studies reporting the frequency and antimicrobial resistance of S. aureus in healthy camels are scarce, but studies showing the frequency and antimicrobial resistance in CoNS are even scarcer. In our study, among the 31 MRCoNS isolates, 13 S. lentus and 12 S. sciuri were isolated from 12 camels each (Table 2).
In other studies, S. lentus has been frequently identified in samples from livestock and from people with occupational exposure to livestock [56,57,58]. S. sciuri has a wider host range and is adapted to very different habitats [59,60]. One nasal sample from one camel was positive for S. lentus (VS3158) and S. sciuri (VS3168), and both isolates showed the same resistance pattern. Another camel simultaneously carried S. lentus (VS3155), S. epidermidis (VS3152) and S. chromogenes (VS3153) in the nasal mucosa. Additionally, the same animal was the only one to carry the same staphylococci species (S. lentus) in both the mouth and nose. Nevertheless, the isolates differed in the resistance profile, with the S. lentus (VS3166) isolated from the oral sample having resistance to penicillin and clindamycin conferred by the genes mecA and mphC, and the S. lentus isolated from the nasal sample showing only resistance to penicillin. Although S. epidermidis and S. hominis strains have been isolated from animal samples, these species are the most prevalent CoNS at the clinical level and as part of the normal nasal microbiota of healthy individuals, which may suggest a possible human origin [22,61,62]. All MRCoNS were resistant to penicillin and harbored the mecA gene. The presence of the mecA gene among staphylococci of the S. sciuri group (S. sciuri, S. lentus, S. vitulinus and S. fleurettii) is common since it is believed that they played an important role in the origin, evolution and dissemination of mecA [63]. None of the MRCoNS showed phenotypic resistance to cefoxitin. In fact, it has been shown that some CoNS carry a homologue of the mecA gene which does not confer resistance to β-lactams [64]. Despite all isolates being resistant to penicillin, all isolates lacked the blaZ gene, which suggests the presence of other unknown resistance mechanisms or that the breakpoints used for susceptibility testing are not accurate for CoNS [22]. Contrary to what was obtained in the study by Alzohairy, none of our MRCoNS isolates displayed a multidrug resistance profile [14]. Finally, only 7 out of 31 MRCoNS isolates carried virulence genes. The hld gene was detected in six isolates, while hla was detected in two. S. epidermidis was the only isolate that carried both genes. Although CoNS carry fewer virulence genes than S. aureus strains, studies have shown that CoNS are a heterogeneous group with distinct virulence potential levels [19,65].

4. Conclusions

In this study, a moderate frequency of S. aureus and MRCoNS was detected among healthy camels. However, our findings show that, in general, European camels have fewer resistance and virulence genes than healthy camels from Africa and Asia. This study demonstrates a low diversity of S. aureus. The predominant lineage was ST7331, followed by ST88, which has already been reported among healthy camels, suggesting that these lineages may be dominant in camels. The carriage of mecA-positive staphylococci by camels may be a public health concern since there is a risk of bacterial transmission to humans during recreational activities. Furthermore, since the Canary Islands are the only camel exporter to the EU, camels could constitute a source of zoonotic agents to the rest of the EU.

Supplementary Materials

The following supporting information can be downloaded at https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/ani12101255/s1. Table S1: Distribution of staphylococci isolates according to the geographical location and anatomical isolation site; Table S2: Primer pairs used for molecular typing and detection of antimicrobial resistance genes in staphylococci strains. References [35,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79] are cited in the Supplementary Materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, V.S., M.T.T.-J. and P.P.; methodology, V.S.; validation, M.C. and P.P.; investigation, V.S.; resources, M.T.T.-J., M.G.-M. and J.A.C.; data curation, V.S., V.M. and N.V.; writing—original draft preparation, V.S.; writing—review and editing, V.S. and M.C.; supervision, G.I. and P.P. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was funded by the R&D Project CAREBIO2: Comparative assessment of antimicrobial resistance in environmental biofilms through proteomics—towards innovative theranostic biomarkers, with reference NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-030101 and PTDC/SAU-INF/30101/2017, financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Northern Regional Operational Program (NORTE 2020) and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). This work was supported by the Associate Laboratory for Green Chemistry-LAQV, which is financed by national funds from FCT/MCTES (UIDB/50006/2020 and UIDP/50006/2020) and by the projects UIDB/CVT/00772/2020 and LA/P/0059/2020 funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Vanessa Silva is grateful to FCT (Fundacão para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) for the financial support through the PhD grant SFRH/BD/137947/2018.

Institutional Review Board Statement

This study was conducted according to the Helsinki Declaration (ICH-GCP principles), in compliance with the Schedule Y/ICMR Guidelines and the Oviedo Convention, and was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (EC-UTAD, 8 November 2019).

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

Not applicable.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Camel sampling sites: Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura.
Figure 1. Camel sampling sites: Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura.
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Table 1. Genetic characterization and molecular typing of S. aureus isolates from healthy camels.
Table 1. Genetic characterization and molecular typing of S. aureus isolates from healthy camels.
IsolateAntimicrobial ResistanceVirulenceMolecular Typing
PhenotypeGenotypeST (CC)spaagr
VS3140Susceptible-hla, hlb, hld7345t1773III
VS3141Susceptible-hla, hlb, hld7345t1773III
VS3142Susceptible-hla, hlb, hld7345t1773III
VS3143Susceptible-hla, hlb, hld7345t1773III
VS3144CIP-hla, hlb, hld7345t1773III
VS3145Susceptible-hla, hlb, hld7345t1773III
VS3146Susceptible-hla, hlb, hld7345t1773III
VS3147Susceptible-hla, hlb, hld88t3221III
VS3148Susceptible-hla, hlb, hld88t3221III
VS3149Susceptible-hla, hlb, hld88t3221III
VS3150Susceptible-hla, hlb, hld8 (8)t008I
Abbreviations: CIP: ciprofloxacin; ST: sequence type; CC: clonal complex.
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Table 2. CoNS species identification, antimicrobial resistance and virulence.
Table 2. CoNS species identification, antimicrobial resistance and virulence.
Isolate SpeciesAntimicrobial ResistanceVirulence Factors
PhenotypeGenotype
VS3151chromogenesPENmecA
VS3152epidermidisPENmecAhla, hld
VS3153hominisPENmecA
VS3154lentusPEN, ERY, CDmecA, mphChla
VS3155lentusPENmecA
VS3156lentusPEN, FDmecA
VS3157lentusPENmecA
VS3158lentusPENmecA
VS3159lentusPENmecA
VS3160lentusPENmecA
VS3161lentusPENmecA
VS3162lentusPENmecA
VS3163lentusPEN, FDmecAhld
VS3164lentusPEN, FDmecA
VS3165lentusPENmecA
VS3166lentusPEN, CDmecA, mphC
VS3167sciuriPENmecA
VS3168sciuriPENmecA
VS3169sciuriPENmecA
VS3170sciuriPENmecA
VS3171sciuriPENmecA
VS3172sciuriPENmecA
VS3173sciuriPENmecAhld
VS3174sciuriPENmecA
VS3175sciuriPENmecA
VS3176sciuriPENmecAhld
VS3177sciuriPENmecAhld
VS3178sciuriPEN, CD, FDmecA, mphC
VS3179xylosusPENmecA
VS3180xylosusPENmecA
VS3181xylosusPENmecAhld
Abbreviations: PEN, penicillin; ERY: erythromycin; CD: clindamycin; FD: fusidic acid.
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