Co-location of the multiresistance gene cfr and the novel streptomycin resistance gene aady on a small plasmid in a porcine Bacillus strain

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1547-1549

  Wang, Yang ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^b   Shen, Zhangqi ^c   Zhang, Wanjiang ^a   Qi, Jing ^d   Liu, Yuqing ^d   He, Tao ^a   Shen, Jianzhong ^a   Wu, Congming ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHANDONG PEANUT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Food safety; Linezolid resistance; Swine

Indexed keywords

APRAMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIAMULIN; TYLOSIN;

AADY GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CFR GENE; ELECTROTRANSFORMATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ARLETTAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS COHNII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; SYNTENY;

EID: 84861116528     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks075     Document Type: Letter

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