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. 2017 Jun 1;15(6):158. doi: 10.3390/md15060158

Table 1.

Representative microbial antibiotic resistance determinants identified from aquaculture systems.

Antibiotic Class Antibiotic Resistance Gene Aquaculture System or Fish Species Reference
β-Lactam (e.g., Ampicillin, Amoxicillin) blaTEM-52, blaSHV-12 Gilthead Seabream Sousa et al. [55]
blaTEM Fish farms, Pakistan and Tanzania Shah et al. [96]
Tetracycline (tetracycline, oxytetracycline, chlortetracycline) tetM, tetO, tetT, tetQ Fish farms, Tianjin, and Guangdong, China Gao et al. [64], Xiong et al. [65]
tetM, tetS Japanese and Korean coastal farms Kim et al. [97]
tetA, tetG Chilean salmon Shah et al. [98]
Fish farms, Pakistan and Tanzania Shah et al. [96]
tetA Marine aquaculture, Spain and Portugal Rodriguez-Blanco et al. [99]
tetA, tetB, tetK Salmon aquaculture, Chile Buschmann et al. [19]
Sulfonamide, sulfamethizole sul1, sul2, sul3 Fish farms, Tianjin, China; farmed freshwater fish, Guangdong, China; Gilthead seabream Sousa et al. [55], Gao et al. [64], Xiong et al. [65]
sul1, sul2 Chilean salmon; fish farms, Tanzania and Pakistan Shah et al. [96], Shah et al. [98]
Aminoglycoside (Streptomycin, spectinomycin, neomycin) aadA strA-strB Chilean salmon, fish farms, Tanzania and Pakistan; catfish farm, Vietnam; carp farms, Poland Shah et al. [96], Shah et al. [98], Nguyen et al. [100], Piotrowska et al. [101]
aad1 Gilthead Seabream Sousa et al. [55]
Amphenicol (chloramphenicol, florfenicol) cmlA Gilthead Seabream Sousa et al. [55]
cat-1 Fish farms, Tanzania and Pakistan Shah et al. [96]
floR Salmon aquaculture, Chile Buschmann et al. [19]
catB Catfish farm, Vietnam Nguyen, et al. [100]
Quinolones (oxolinic acid, ciproflaxin) qepA, oqxAB, qnrS, aac(6′)-Ib, qnrB, qnrD Farmed freshwater fish, Guangdong, China Shah et al. [98], Jiang et al. [102]
qnrA, qnrB, qnrS Salmon aquaculture, Chile Buschmann et al. [19]
Macrolides (erythromycin) mefA Fish farms, Tanzania Shah et al. [96]
ermC, ermE, ermX, ermC Carp farms, Poland Piotrowska et al. [101]
Trimethoprim dfrA1, dfrA5, dftA12 Chilean salmon; fish farms, Tanzania and Pakistan Shah et al. [96], Shah et al. [98]
dfrA12 Catfish farm, Vietnam Nguyen et al. [100]
Quinoxoline 1, 4-di-N-oxides (carbadox, olaquindox, mequindox) oqxA Salmon aquaculture, Chile Buschmann et al. [19]