Advances in Microbiology
Vol.05 No.13(2015), Article ID:62426,10 pages
10.4236/aim.2015.513091

Heavy Metals and Antibiotics Susceptibility Profiles of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Several Points Receiving Daily Input from the Bodija Abattoir in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Abimbola O. Adekanmbi, Olutayo I. Falodun*

Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Received 17 November 2015; accepted 27 December 2015; published 30 December 2015

ABSTRACT

Indiscriminate and unguided discharge of untreated wastewater especially from abattoirs can constitute a public health threat and also stimulate the onset of co-resistance to metal and antibiotics in environmental microorganisms. It has been shown that microorganisms especially bacteria that have the capacity to resist antibiotics and heavy metals, may constitute a public health threat. This study was therefore conducted to determine the susceptibility and tolerance profile of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from abattoir effluent flowing into a receiving river around Bodija market in Ibadan to a range of antibiotics and heavy metals. Ten points were selected for sampling, and the samples were cultured on nutrient agar and mannitol salt agar. A total of 22 Staphylococcus aureus strains were obtained. They were subjected to increasing concentration of six heavy metals [lead (Pb), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd), nickel (Ni)] and five antibiotics. Of the total isolates, 41% were resistant to all the six metals at 1500μg/ml concentration, while the others showed various degree of resistance. A percentage resistance of 22.7% was observed for tetracycline, 100% to ceftazidime, 9.1% to ciprofloxacin and vancomycin while 63.6% of the strains were resistant to oxacillin. All the strains but two showed resistance to all the metals tested, while multiple resistance to antibiotics was also observed. Further studies need to be carried out on the mechanisms of resistance of these strains.

Keywords:

Staphylococcus aureus, Heavy Metals, Antibiotics, Abattoir, Resistance

1. Introduction

Abattoir in the developing countries of the world may serve as public health threat due to the unsanitary practices and unwholesome discharge of their waste and wastewater into the environment. Abattoir wastes are parts of the animal that are not used or useful for food productions and may include internal organs, blood, bones, ligaments, tendons, urine, faeces and carcasses [1] . Discharge of waste and wastewater into water surfaces is a common way of contaminating drinking water as such discharge can contain a significant level of bacterial pathogens. Studies on abattoir wastewater and the receiving water had shown that abattoir serves as a source of water pollution as it was reported to contain levels of coliform bacteria that have been found to be far beyond the recommended and permissible limit for discharge into water bodies [2] . It has also been reported that the discharge of untreated abattoir wastewater into drainage channel have led to the contamination of groundwater with faecal bacteria [3] . More so, a number of bacteria and fungi pathogens which might be a public threat by migrating into the groundwater have been reported to have been isolated from wastewater from abattoirs and surface water; these pathogens include: Staphylococcus spp., Escherichia coli, Streptococcus spp., Salmonella spp., Aspergillus spp., Mucor spp., Saccharomyces spp. and Penicillium spp. [4] [5] .

Staphylococci are gram positive, ubiquitous bacteria that are part of the normal bacterial flora of the skin and mucosal surfaces of human and animals while Staphylococcus aureus, S. epidermidis and S. saprophyticus have been implicated in human health diseases [6] . Staphylococcus aureus is facultative anaerobe, non-motile, and appear usually in the form of irregular coccoid clusters, and has been implicated as a pathogen in a wide range of human infections, such as skin, soft tissues and wound infections. It is also responsible for some other chronic infections like septicemia, urinary tract infections, pneumonia, osteomyelitis or endocarditis. It is also a common pathogen in both hospital and community-acquired infections [7] - [10] .

Heavy metals are found in increasing proportion in microbial habitats as a result of rapid urbanization and natural processes [11] . Metals such as nickel, copper, cobalt and zinc play a major role in the growth and development of microbes as well as their metabolic processes. However, increase in the concentration of the metals beyond threshold compels microorganisms to adapt using various biological mechanisms in other to withstand the condition of the increased concentrations [12] [13] . The presence of high concentration of heavy metals in wastewater not only leads directly to the contamination of receiving water bodies, it also has detrimental effects on the aquatic life of the water bodies [14] . There are various mechanisms by which microorganisms adapt to heavy metals which include: metal sorption, mineralization, uptake and accumulation, metal efflux systems, complexation, oxidation or reduction to a less toxic form by which metals are used as a terminal electron acceptor during anaerobic respiration [15] [16] . Bacteria that can tolerate and grow in the presence of high concentration of heavy metals play important role in their biological cycling and have potential in the remediation of metal-contaminated environment [17] . Staphylococcus aureus have been reported to be resistant to a number of heavy metals such as chromium and iron [18] .

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is the ability of such bacteria to grow in the presence of antibiotics and resistance could be natural or acquired [19] . Infections as a result of resistant bacteria are always difficult to treat because conventional treatment fails and leads to longer time of treatment and sometimes death. It also leads to higher medical costs, according to the World Health Organization [20] . Resistant pathogenic microorganisms can be transmitted to human from animals and non-pathogenic antibiotic resistant bacteria that are part of normal flora of the intestinal tract and are able to transfer resistance genes to non-pathogenic ones [21] .

S. aureus is often found to be resistant to one or more antibiotics, including methicillin and hence infections caused by this organism are usually very difficult to treat [22] . Antibiotic resistance in human may either be hospital or community acquired. One of the main contributors to the community acquired infection including Staphylococci infections is the use of antibiotics in animal production and also the introduction of resistant bacteria into the environment through the faeces of animals that are on chemotherapy [23] [24] . This study was therefore designed to determine the susceptibility and tolerance profile of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from an abattoir flowing into a receiving river around Bodija market area in Ibadan, Oyo State to a range of antibiotics and heavy metals.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Description of the Study Area

The study was carried out on a drainage-river interface receiving everyday input from the Bodija market abattoir and some other sources (e.g. refuse dumpsite, public toilet, household waste, agricultural waste and sewage) all located in Ibadan North LGA of Oyo State. Ten (10) different sampling points approximately 50 meters apart were chosen for the study along the course of the drainage discharge from the abattoir into the adjoining river, except for sampling point 8 and 9 with the separating distance around 500 meters (due to the non-availability of a suitable sampling point). The description and geographical positions of the sampling points are shown in Table 1 ( Plate 1 ).

2.2. Sample Collection

A total of 30 wastewater samples (3 for each sampling point) were collected at the designated sampling points in 1.5 L pre-sterilized sample bottles from July-September, 2014. The wastewater samples were immediately transported to the laboratory in ice packs within 30 minutes of collection for microbiological analysis.

2.3. Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria from the Wastewater Samples

Serial dilutions were carried out on the wastewater samples and 1 ml of the appropriate dilution were plated on

Plate 1. One of the points where wastewater sample was obtained in this study.

Table 1. Description of the sample locations and the geographical positioning reading.

cooled Nutrient agar (for the determination of the total heterotrophic count) and mannitol salt agar for the isola- tion of Staphylococcus sp., using the standard pour plate technique of Harrigan and McCance [25] . The plates were incubated at 35˚C for 24 hours. Distinct yellow colonies presumptive of the target organism were picked and further sub-cultured to obtain pure cultures. The pure isolates were kept on 15% glycerol stock and kept at −80˚C for long term storage. Characterization of the bacterial isolates was done using morphological, biochemical and sugar fermentation tests [26] .

2.4. Exposure of the Bacteria to Increasing Concentration of Heavy Metals

The tolerance of each Staphylococcal strain to metal ions was evaluated on Mueller Hinton agar plates supplemented with increasing concentration of each of the six soluble metal salts (K2Cr2O7, Pb(CH3COO)2, CdCl2, NiSO4 and CuSO4, ZnSO4) employed in this study. The starting concentration of each metal was 50μg/ml and this was increased by 50 μg/ml at intervals until the isolates failed to grow on the media-supplemented medium. The plates were incubated at 35˚C ± 2˚C and observed for growth [27] [28] .

2.5. Antibiotic Susceptibility Test

Antibiotic susceptibility test was carried out using the disc diffusion technique according to the method of Bauer et al. [29] . The five antibiotics used in this study include: ceftazidime (10 µg), tetracycline (30 µg), ciprofloxacin (5 µg), vancomycin (30 µg), and oxacilin (1 µg). All the antibiotics were purchased from Oxoid, UK. The bacteria were cultivated on Muller Hinton agar plates using sterile swab sticks; after the turbidity of the inoculum have been adjusted to 0.5 McFarland standards. The antibiotic discs were placed on the plates with the aid of sterile forceps and incubated at 35˚C ± 2˚C for 18 - 24 hours. The zones of inhibition were measured and the values were compared with the CLSI standards [30] .

2.6. Statistical Analysis

The mean of the data generated were calculated and the standard deviation was determined.

3. Results

A total of twenty-two (22) Staphylococcus aureus strains showing different level of resistance to the six metals employed in this study were obtained. The total heterotrophic count (THC) at each point of sampling is shown in Table 2. Wastewater samples collected from sampling point 6 had the highest value of 3.76 × 107 cfu/ml while the least value of 0.91 × 107 cfu/ml was observed at sampling point 1. Sampling points 2 and 4 had values of

Table 2. Total Heterotrophic Count at each selected sampling points.

Note: The values are a mean of three different samplings.

1.76 × 107 cfu/ml respectively while the samples collected from sampling points 3 and 5 with values of 1.92 × 107 cfu/ml.

The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of the Staphylococcus aureus to increasing concentration of heavy metals is shown in Table 3. All the isolates were observed to be growing at different concentration of the metals except for Staphylococcus aureus AW2a and AW8l that did not grow at any concentration of chromium and nickel respectively.

The resistance pattern of the isolates to the antibiotics used in this study is shown in Figure 1. All the isolates were resistant to ceftazidime (100%), there was 22.7% resistance to tetracycline, 9.1% each to ciprofloxacin and vancomycin while 63.6% of the Staphylococcus aureus strains were resistant to oxacillin. The phenotype of resistance to the antibiotics is shown in Table 4. It was observed that six (6) of the isolates were resistant to ceftazidime only, seven (7) showed resistance to both ceftazidime and oxacillin; one (1) each to ceftazidime and vancomycin; ceftazidime, oxacillin and ciprofloxacin; and ceftazidime, tetracycline and ciprofloxacin. There were four (4) isolates observed showing resistance to ceftazidime, tetracycline and oxacillin, while two (2) of the 22 isolates showed resistance to the trio of ceftazidime, oxacillin and vancomycin.

4. Discussion

Our observation in this study showed that the total heterotrophic count was within the range of 0.91 x 107 and 3.76 × 107 cfu/ml; points 6 and 8 revealed relatively, higher count. The reason for this high count might be due to the high volume of anthropogenic activities around the two points compared to the other sampling points. The

Table 3. MIC of the isolated Staphylococcus aureus to heavy metals (μg/ml).

Figure 1. Percentage resistance of Staphylococcus aureus strains to the selected antibiotics.

Table 4. Phenotypic resistance pattern of Staphylococcus aureus to metals and antibiotics used in this study.

1Ceftazidime, 2Oxacillin, 3Vancomycin, 4Ciprofloxacin, 5Tetracycline.

least total heterotrophic count was at the sampling point 1 which is the abattoir wastewater which is devoid of any input from human influence. This observation is similar to other studies carried out in Southern Nigeria, where it was reported that abattoir sewage had the lowest total heterotrophic count compared to when the wastewater had mixed with the receiving water bodies and the count from soil or sediment from the abattoir respectively [31] [33] . However, the value of the heterotrophic count in this study (0.9 × 107) is higher than the 1.2 × 106 as it was reported by Ogbonna [32] . However, a lower total bacterial count (3.6 ? 6.4 × 101) compared to the one observed in this study was reported by Adekanmbi and Falodun [28] , in a study carried out on water samples collected from a river that is close to a tertiary hospital with human activities such as car washing, laundry, bathing, swimming and fishing influencing its quality, but the present study was carried out on abattoir wastewater, however, similar activities were observed in both instances.

The isolation of Staphylococcus aureus from Bodija abattoir wastewater (affected by other anthropogenic influence) in this study corroborates previous research which reported the isolation of pathogenic microorganisms including S. aureus from the same abattoir and other abattoirs in the country [31] [32] . Furthermore a study on the physicochemical analyses of the Bodija abattoir wastewater indicated varying concentration of heavy metals like lead, nickel, copper and zinc in the wastewater [33] . Our results showed that out of 95.5% of the S. aureus strains which were highly resistant to chromium, 72.7% tolerated the metals at 1500 µg/ml and this was similar to a recent observation in India where all the pathogenic strains of S. aureus were resistant to the same metal [18] . Our observation also showed that 72.7% and 63.6% of these organisms tolerated 1500 µg/ml of zinc and nickel, respectively. Singh and his colleagues also reported that all the S. aureus isolates were susceptible to the two metals [18] . Furthermore, a Staphylococcus isolates was reported to tolerate 100 µg/ml of lead while this same isolate tolerated zinc up to the concentration of 450 µg/ml [34] . Clinical strains of S. aureus also showed tolerance to lead with MIC values ranging between 100 µg/ml to 150 µg/ml [35] .

In a study conducted on soil irrigated with wastewater, 100%, of the Staphylococcus and Micrococcus were resistant to lead and nickel while 83% were resistant to copper [36] . This is also similar to the results of the present study where 100% of the isolates were resistant to both copper and lead while 95.5% of the isolates were resistant to nickel. The result also showed that 90.9% of the total isolates exhibited tolerance to the metals tested with minimum tolerance level ranging from 100 µg/ml to 500 µg/ml except for S. aureus AW2a and AW8l that were susceptible to nickel and chromium. This is in agreement with the report of Rajbanshi [16] that Staphylococcus sp. from sewage treatment plants showed high resistance to heavy metals like cadmium, nickel, copper and chromium with the minimum inhibitory concentration of between 150 - 500 µg/ml.

The S. aureus obtained in this study were all resistant to copper and zinc, but in another study carried out on metal tolerance involving S. epidermidis, it was reported that all the isolates tested were resistant to zinc but susceptible to copper [37] . This may be as a result of the environment from where the organisms were isolated which was not indicated in the report. Our results indicated that 36.4% of the isolates tolerated a concentration of 1500 µg/ml of all the six metals tested while 22.7% tolerated five out of the metals at concentration of 1500 ug/ml. The reason for the variation in the resistance level of the isolates tested in this study may be due to the different levels of the metals in the abattoir. In a previous study on the physicochemical analyses of the effluents from the same abattoir, the concentration of the metals varies but was all beyond the permissible limit of the Federal Ministry of Environment [33] .

In case of antibiotic resistance, the result showed that all the isolates were resistant to ceftazidime (10 µg), this is similar to the report of Al-Sa’ady et al. [37] in which all the strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis were observed to be resistant to the same antibiotic but the concentration used was not indicated. However, there was a difference in the susceptibility of the strains to tetracycline, which revealed that all the strains of the S. epidermidis were susceptible while 22.7% of the isolates in this study were resistant to 30 µg of tetracycline.

Our observation revealed that 63.6% of the isolates were resistant to oxacillin which is greater than the 24.0% reported from wastewater that originated from slaughter houses and municipal sources in Germany by Bohn et al. [23] . The difference could be because of a better regulatory measure on abattoir management and disposal of wastes and wastewater in developed countries like Germany compared to a developing country like Nigeria. In a study carried out on strains of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) obtained from wastewater treatment plants in the United States [38] , it was reported that a percentage resistance of 98.8% was observed to oxacillin, and this was higher than the 63.3% resistance to the same antibiotics observed in this study. The percentage resistance to ciprofloxacin in this study was 9.1% which is much lower when compared to the 63.1% in the aforementioned study in the United States. Resistance to both tetracycline and vancomycin in this present study was 22.7% and 9.1% respectively, which is comparable to the 14.3% and 0% resistance, respectively, as reported by Goldstein et al. [38] .

It was observed in this study that most of the S. aureus tested in this study showed multiple resistances to heavy metals and antibiotics. This observation is similar to a study carried out in Nepal on sewage treatment plant [16] . It has been reported that microbial resistance to heavy metals may be attributed to a variety of detoxifying mechanisms developed by resistant microorganisms such as complexation by exopolysaccharides, binding with bacterial cell envelopes, metal reduction, metal efflux. Sometimes, some of these mechanisms are encoded in plasmid genes which may facilitate the transfer of the toxic metal resistance from the cell of one microorganism to another [39] . Although certain metals are important and essential trace elements in microbial metabolisms and some physiological functions, they can be very toxic above a certain threshold. These interactions have a number of important environmental and health implications.

The use of bacteria to clean up metal-contaminated sites is a useful implication in environmental recovery; however the presence of metal tolerance mechanisms may also contribute to the increase in antibiotic resistance thus contributing to very serious health concerns. The introduction of toxicants such as disinfectants and metals by humans into the environment can have many effects, not just on humans, but also on the environment and the microbial community on which all other life forms depend [40] - [42] . The metal tolerant nature of the bacteria from this study has tremendous potential in the bioremediation of heavy metal contamination in soils and water [43] and also in the treatment of sewage and toxic wastes [44] .

5. Conclusion

Despite the bioremediation potentials of the Staphylococcus strains isolated in this study, the probable transfer of potentially pathogenic bacteria with metal and antibiotic resistant mechanisms is also a major public health threat. We therefore emphasize the need for adequate measures to be put in place in our abattoirs for a proper treatment of heavy-metal laden wastewater and safe disposal to prevent a potential menace.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge Miss Oluwaferanmi Joy Adeleke and Nifemi Bunmi Ogunrinde for their inputs.

Conflict of Interests

The authors did not declare any conflict of interests.

Cite this paper

Abimbola O.Adekanmbi,Olutayo I.Falodun, (2015) Heavy Metals and Antibiotics Susceptibility Profiles of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Several Points Receiving Daily Input from the Bodija Abattoir in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Advances in Microbiology,05,871-880. doi: 10.4236/aim.2015.513091

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