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. 2021 May 26;18(11):5723. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18115723

Table 3.

Bacteria isolated from aquaculture in the Mediterranean area, antibiotic resistance and antibiotic-resistance genes.

Country/Area Isolated Bacteria Species/Genus/Family/Order/Class Antibiotic-Resistance Antibiotic-Resistant Genes References
Algeria Vibrio alginolyticus, V. cholerae, V. fluvialis, V. hollisae [133]
Croatia Aeromonas spp. [134]
Eastern Adriatic Vibrio spp. flumequinone, chloramphenicol, oxytetracycline [135]
Egypt Aeromonas spp. chloramphenicol, kanamycin, azithromycin [136]
Egypt Pseudomonas anguilliseptica [137]
Egypt Aeromonas hydrophila penicillin, erythromycin [138]
Egypt Enterobacteriaceae cephalosporins, carbapenem blaKPC (blaCTX-M-15, blaSHV, blaTEM, blaPER-1) [139]
France Flavobacterium psychrophilum [140]
France Yersinia ruckeri [141]
Greece Acinetobacter spp., Bacillus spp., Pseudomonas spp., Staphylococcus spp., Stenotrophomonas spp. tetracycline tetA, tetK, tetC, tetE, tetM [127]
Italy Enterococci ampicillin, gentamicin tetM, tetL, tetO, ermB, mef [142]
Italy Aeromonas spp., Photobacterium spp., Shewanella spp., Vibrio spp. tetracycline, flumequine, trimethoprim [122]
Italy Photobacterium damselae ssp. piscicida, Vibrio fluvialis, V. alginolyticus, V. parahaemolyticus, V. metschnikovii ampicillin, carbenicillin, kanamycin, cefalothin [143]
Italy Aeromonas spp. ampicillin, amoxicillin, cephalothin, erythromycin, streptomycin, sulfadiazine, trimethoprim [125]
Italy Shewanella algae, Vibrio spp. beta-lactams, quinolones, tetracyclines, macrolides, polymyxins, chloramphenicol, fosfomycin, erythromycin blaOXA-55-like,
blaAmpC, mexB-OprM, mdtG, mdlB,tet34, tet35, tetR, eptA, cat, mdtL
[46]
Lebanon Streptococcus pneumoniae polymyxins, chloramphenicol, fosfomycin, erythromycin [144]
Spain Aeromonas spp., Salmonella spp., Vibrio mimicus, V. furnissii. oxytetracycline, nitrofurantoin, oxacillin, sulfomethoxazole/trimethoprim [145]
Spain Flavobacterium psychrophilum oxytetracycline, florfenicol [146]
Spain Aeromonas salmonicida nalidixic acid, oxytetracycline [147]
Tunisia Vibrio alginolyticus ampicillin, erythromycin, kanamycin, cefataxime, streptomycin, trimetoprim [148]
Tunisia Escherichia coli tertracycline, streptomycin, ampicillin, trimethoprim, sulfamethoxazole tetA-tetB [149]
Turkey E. coli, coliforms, fish pathogens sulfamethoxazole, ampicillin, sulfamethoxazole, imipenem, aztreonam ampC, blaCTX-M1, tetA, sul2, blaTEM [150]
Turkey Y. ruckeri floR, sulI, tetC, tetD, tetE [151]
Turkey Y. ruckeri erythromycin, florfenicol, sulfonamide, tetracycline, trimetophrin ermB, ermY, floR, su/I, suffll, tetA-tetG [152]
Turkey Aeromonas media, A. rivipollensis, A. salmonicida, Bacillus pumilus, B. zhangzhouensis, Hafnia alvei, Kluyvera intermedia, Pantoea spp., Pseudomonas spp., P. protegens, Staphylococcus spp., Gammaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Enterobacteriales, Burkholderiales sulfamethacin, sulfamerazine, erythromycin, tetracycline [153]