Distribution of oxytetracycline resistance plasmids between aeromonads in hospital and aquaculture environments: implication of Tn1721 in dissemination of the tetracycline resistance determinant Tet A

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Results demonstrate dissemination of tetracycline resistance-encoding plasmids between aeromonads and Escherichia coli and between human and aquaculture environments. Oxytetracycline mesophilic aeromonads collected from hospital effluents and from a fish farm served as models.

author: Rhodes, Glenn, Huys, Geert, Swings, Jean, McGann Patrick, Hiney, Maura, Smith, Peter, Pickup, Roger W.
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Belgium, Physiological aspects, Genetic aspects, Ecological research, Aquaculture, Oxytetracycline

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Prevalence and molecular characterization of tetracycline resistance in Enterococcus isolates from food

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A study of the phenotypic and genotypic assessment of tetracycline (TC) resistance in a collection of 187 Enterococcus food isolates mainly originating from European cheeses is presented. In addition, a subset of tet genes belonging to the tet(M) group, transferred by in vitro filter conjugation to E.faecalis recipient strain JH2-2 are further characterized by partial sequencing to examine the degree of nucleotide polymorphism and their sequence similarities to previously determined tet(M) genes.

author: Huys, Geert, Swings, Jean, D'Haene, Klaas, Collard, Jean-Marc
Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical preparations, Biological Product (except Diagnostic) Manufacturing, Nucleic Acid Derivatives, Tetracycline Preparations, Genotype, Genotypes, Phenotype, Phenotypes, Nucleotides, Tetracycline, Tetracyclines

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Complete nucleotide sequence of the conjugative teteracycline resistance plasmid pFBAOT6, a member of a group of IncU plasmids with global ubiquity

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The first complete nucleotide sequence of an IncU plasmid, pRFBAOT6 that is isolated from a strain of Aeromonas caviae from Westmorland General hospital effluent is presented. Putative replication, maintenance and transfer functions are identified and are located in a region in the first 31kb of the plasmid.

author: Parkhill, Julian, Rhodes, Glenn, Huys, Geert, Swings, Jean, Pickup, Roger W., Bird, Christine, Ambrose, Kerrie, Jones, Matthew C.
Nucleotide sequencing

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