Identification of multiresistance gene cfr in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from pigs: Plasmid location and integration into a staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec complex

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3641-3644

  Li, Dexi ^a   Wu, Congming ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Fan, Run ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^b   Zhang, Suxia ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIAMULIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME; GENE CASSETTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENOTYPE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIRESISTANCE CFR GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIG; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; SWINE;

EID: 84964902246     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00500-15     Document Type: Article

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