Detection in Italy of a porcine Enterococcus faecium isolate carrying the novel phenicol-oxazolidinone-tetracycline resistance gene poxtA

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 817-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Brenciani ◽  
Simona Fioriti ◽  
Gianluca Morroni ◽  
Lucilla Cucco ◽  
Alessandra Morelli ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 2461-2462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Costas C Papagiannitsis ◽  
Katerina Tsilipounidaki ◽  
Ergina Malli ◽  
Efi Petinaki

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 7113-7116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbin Si ◽  
Wan-Jiang Zhang ◽  
Shengbo Chu ◽  
Xiu-Mei Wang ◽  
Lei Dai ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTA novel nonconjugative plasmid of 28,489 bp from a porcine linezolid-resistantEnterococcus faeciumisolate was completely sequenced. This plasmid harbored a novel type of multiresistance gene cluster that comprised the resistance geneslnu(B),lsa(E),spw,aadE,aphA3, and two copies oferm(B), which account for resistance to macrolides, lincosamides, streptogramins, pleuromutilins, streptomycin, spectinomycin, and kanamycin/neomycin. Structural comparisons suggested that this plasmid might have developed from other enterococcal plasmids by insertion element (IS)-mediated interplasmid recombination processes.


2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1430-1432 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Diaz-Torres ◽  
R. McNab ◽  
D. A. Spratt ◽  
A. Villedieu ◽  
N. Hunt ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT A major drawback of most studies on how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics is that they concentrate mainly on bacteria that can be cultivated in the laboratory. In the present study, we cloned part of the oral metagenome and isolated a novel tetracycline resistance gene, tet(37), which inactivates tetracycline.


2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 775-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen P. Scott ◽  
Claire M. Melville ◽  
Teresa M. Barbosa ◽  
Harry J. Flint

ABSTRACT Members of our group recently identified a new tetracycline resistance gene, tet(W), in three genera of rumen obligate anaerobes. Here, we show that tet(W) is also present in bacteria isolated from human feces. The tet(W) genes found in human Fusobacterium prausnitzii andBifidobacterium longum isolates were more than 99.9% identical to those from a rumen isolate of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens.


2015 ◽  
Vol 81 (16) ◽  
pp. 5560-5566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Won Shin ◽  
Min Kyoung Shin ◽  
Myunghwan Jung ◽  
Kuastros Mekonnen Belaynehe ◽  
Han Sang Yoo

ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and transferability of resistance in tetracycline-resistantEscherichia coliisolates recovered from beef cattle in South Korea. A total of 155E. coliisolates were collected from feces in South Korea, and 146 were confirmed to be resistant to tetracycline. The tetracycline resistance genetet(A) (46.5%) was the most prevalent, followed bytet(B) (45.1%) andtet(C) (5.8%). Strains carryingtet(A) plustet(B) andtet(B) plustet(C) were detected in two isolates each. In terms of phylogenetic grouping, 101 (65.2%) isolates were classified as phylogenetic group B1, followed in decreasing order by D (17.4%), A (14.2%), and B2 (3.2%). Ninety-one (62.3%) isolates were determined to be multidrug resistant by the disk diffusion method. MIC testing using the principal tetracyclines, namely, tetracycline, chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, doxycycline, and minocycline, revealed that isolates carryingtet(B) had higher MIC values than isolates carryingtet(A). Conjugation assays showed that 121 (82.9%) isolates could transfer a tetracycline resistance gene to a recipient via the IncFIB replicon (65.1%). This study suggests that the high prevalence of tetracycline-resistantE. coliisolates in beef cattle is due to the transferability of tetracycline resistance genes betweenE. colipopulations which have survived the selective pressure caused by the use of antimicrobial agents.


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