Detection of the staphylococcal multiresistance gene cfr in macrococcus caseolyticus and Jeotgalicoccus pinnipedialis

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1824-1827

  Wang, Yang ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^b   Shen, Zhangqi ^c   Zhou, Nan ^a   Lin, Juchun ^d   Wu, Congming ^a   Shen, Jianzhong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Food safety; Intergenus transfer; Linezolid resistance; Swine

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BLEOMYCIN; CEFTIOFUR; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA 16S; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; TIAMULIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VALNEMULIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CFR GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROTRANSFORMATION; FLORA; GENE LOCATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; JEOTGALICOCCUS PINNIPEDIALIS; MACROCOCCUS CASEOLYTICUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARRIER STATE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NOSE; PLASMIDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCACEAE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; THIAMPHENICOL;

EID: 84864506799     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks163     Document Type: Article

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