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Provisional epidemiological cutoff values for standard broth microdilution susceptibility testing of Flavobacterium columnare
Author(s) -
Gieseker C M,
Crosby T C,
Woods L C
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of fish diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-2761
pISSN - 0140-7775
DOI - 10.1111/jfd.12549
Subject(s) - florfenicol , broth microdilution , enrofloxacin , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , antimicrobial , minimum inhibitory concentration , flumequine , veterinary medicine , antibiotics , ciprofloxacin , medicine
The gliding aquatic bacterium Flavobacterium columnare causes columnaris disease, a common problem for wild and farmed freshwater fish worldwide. Recently, a broth microdilution method was standardized to test the susceptibility of F. columnare against antimicrobials commonly used in aquaculture. We used this new method to measure the minimal inhibitory concentrations ( MIC s) of ten antimicrobials against 120 F. columnare isolates. The resulting MIC frequency distributions for each antimicrobial (1 MIC /isolate) were used to estimate epidemiological cut‐off values ( ECV s) which separate isolates with typical wild‐type ( WT ) susceptibility from isolates with decreased non‐wild‐type ( NWT ) susceptibility. We identified 22 NWT isolates with elevated MIC s relative to the ECV that covered 99.9% of the MIC distribution against one or more of the antimicrobials: ampicillin, enrofloxacin, erythromycin, florfenicol, flumequine, oxolinic acid or oxytetracycline. Ten of the NWT isolates had decreased susceptibility to a single antimicrobial class, six isolates to two antimicrobial classes and six isolates to three or more antimicrobial classes. The MIC frequency distributions and provisional cut‐off values provide data needed to set epidemiological cut‐off values to monitor for the development of antimicrobial resistance among F. columnare .