Judicious Use of Florfenicol and other Antibiotics
Lower Snake River Compensation Plan Hatchery Production Planning Meeting
May 15-16, 2012
Judicious Use of AntimicrobialsAVMA AqVMC Guidelines 2002, revised 2004Treat as a Last Resort
Prevention is key: husbandry, biosecurity, nutrition, vaccination, probiotics, minimize stressors
Accurate Disease DiagnosisIf Abx are warranted, determine Abx of
choice of those available.
Judicious Use of AntimicrobialsUse culture and
sensitivityTx may be started based
on diagnosis and previous sensitivity results if necessary
Monitor sensitivity trends over time
Lab results can be different than in field
Judicious Use of AntimicrobialsUse antimicrobials with
narrowest spectrum of activity and known effectiveness in vivo (minimize broad Abx resistance).
Antimicrobial use should be optimized using current pharmacological information and principles.
Judicious Use of AntimicrobialsAntimicrobials should be used in cases of
appropriate clinical indications (for example, not in cases of uncomplicated viral infections).
Minimize exposure of bacteria to antimicrobials, treat only until desired clinical response (such as target for mortality rate reduction).
Judicious Use of AntimicrobialsChoose antimicrobial drugs of lesser
importance in human medicine.Whenever possible, use an antimicrobial that
is labeled to treat the condition diagnosed.Do not use antimicrobial drugs
prophylactically.
How Bacteria are Able to Avoid Antibiotic Effects
1. Pump the antibiotic out of the bacterial cell
2. Degrade the antibiotic with an enzyme
3. Render antibiotic ineffective with an altering enzyme
From Todar’s Online Textbook of Microbiology
Use of Antibiotics: applying a selective pressure for resistance
en.wikipedia.org
From ANTIMICROBIALPHARMACODYNAMICS: CRITICALINTERACTIONS OF ‘BUG AND DRUG’George Drusano Nature 2004
Routes by which antimicrobial resistant bacteria and resistance genes can cycle through human populations, and terrestrial and aquatic systems
Tt
Food, pets, animal
husbandry, leisure
Food, potable
water, fish keeping, bathing, leisure
Irrigation, animal
drinking water,
precipitation, birds
Terrestrial environment
AquaticEnvironment
Sewage effluent, hospital waste, agricultural runoff, direct contact with livestock, humans & wildlife
From Taylor, Aquatic systems: maintain, mixing and mobilizing antimicrobial resistance? Trends in Ecology and Evolution June 2011, Vol 26, No 6
Three key factors with regard to emergence of antimicrobial resistance:“Association of resistance
gene(s) with mobile genetic elements
Close contact between bacteria in a polymicrobial environment
The selective pressure as imposed by the use of antimicrobials”
From Use of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine and mechanisms of resistanceSchwarz and Chaslus-DancaVeterinary Research 32(2001)221-225
Why feeding fish antibiotics is especially challengingUneven amount of food
(doses), weaker fish eat less aggressively, therefore dose is less.
Some antibiotics are excreted largely unchanged and are relatively stable in water
Antibiotics settle with particles into the silt below the fish and interact with environmental bacteria
Florfenicol
Florfenicol is a fluorinated analog of chloramphenicol approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) pathogens in 1996
Florfenicol binds to the 50S subunit of the bacterial ribosome and disrupts protein synthesis
Aquaflor®Approved for control of mortality in catfish due to
enteric septicemia (ESC) associated with Edwardsiella ictaluri in 2005
Approved for treatment of fresh-water salmonids for F. psychrophilum and A. salmonicida in 2007
Approved for the control of mortality in freshwater-reared warmwater finfish due to streptococcal septicemia associated with S. iniae in 2012
Approved for the control of mortality in freshwater-reared finfish due to columnaris disease associated with F. columnare in 2012
Examples of Florfenicol resistance in aquaculture
“Detection of the floR Gene in a Diversity of Florfenicol Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli from Freshwater Salmon Farms in Chile”
floR confers antimicrobial resistance to florfenicol and chloramphenicol giving the bacteria the ability to pump the antibiotics outIn this case, the strains carrying the floR gene were associated with multidrug resistance, with all strains resistant to at least 5 antimicrobialsFlorfenicol was licensed for use in aquaculture in Chile in 1994
Zoonoses Public Health (2010) 181-188
Conclusions
The epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance is complex
Since we do not have all the science to understand the microbial ecology leading to resistance (the complex interactions between antibiotics, bacteria, and the environment) we should be judicious in the use of the few antimicrobials we have available
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