Escherichia coli strains from Kenyan patients carrying conjugatively transferable broad-spectrum β-lactamase, qnr, aac(6')-ib-cr and 16s rRNA methyltransferase genes

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1639-1642

  Kiiru, John ^a,b,c   Kariuki, Samuel ^a   Goddeeris, Bruno M ^b,d   Revathi, Gunturu ^e   Maina, Teresiah W ^f   Ndegwa, Doris W ^f   Muyodi, Jane ^a   Butaye, Patrick ^c,d  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^f KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

lactams; Aminoglycosides; Antimicrobial agents; Antimicrobial resistance surveillance; Drug susceptibility testing; Fluoroquinolones; Gene cassettes; Integrons; Resistance mechanisms; Transposons

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KENYA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; KENYA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 79958856037     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr149     Document Type: Letter

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