A novel gene, optrA, that confers transferable resistance to oxazolidinones and phenicols and its presence in Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium of human and animal origin

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2182-2190

  Wang, Yang ^a   Lv, Yuan ^b   Cai, Jiachang ^c   Schwarz, Stefan ^d   Cui, Lanqing ^b   Hu, Zhidong ^e   Zhang, Rong ^c   Li, Jun ^a   Zhao, Qin ^a   He, Tao ^a   Wang, Dacheng ^f   Wang, Zheng ^a   Shen, Yingbo ^a   Li, Yun ^b   Feßler, Andrea T ^d   Wu, Congming ^a   Yu, Hao ^f   Deng, Xuming ^f   Xia, Xi ^a   Shen, Jianzhong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^c THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^e TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Enterococci; Florfenicol; Interspecies transfer; Linezolid; Plasmids; Tedizolid

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABC TRANSPORTER OPTRA; AMIKACIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; LINEZOLID; RNA 23S; TEDIZOLID; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALNEMULIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CFR GENE; CHICKEN; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEXA GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMID; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXAZOLIDINONES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84939518833     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkv116     Document Type: Article

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