Analysis of antibiotic resistance regions in Gram-negative bacteria

SR Partridge - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria is often due to the acquisition of resistance
genes from a shared pool. In multiresistant isolates these genes, together with associated …

Expansion of ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in hospitalized patients: a successful story of international clones (ST15, ST147, ST336) and epidemic plasmids …

C Rodrigues, E Machado, H Ramos, L Peixe… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to characterize by a multi-level approach extended-spectrum β-
lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates other than E. coli from Portuguese …

Comparative genomics of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains with different antibiotic resistance profiles

V Kumar, P Sun, J Vamathevan, Y Li… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is a global emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae,
a Gram-negative enteric bacterium that causes nosocomial and urinary tract infections …

Recombination in IS26 and Tn2 in the Evolution of Multiresistance Regions Carrying blaCTX-M-15 on Conjugative IncF Plasmids from Escherichia coli

SR Partridge, Z Zong, JR Iredell - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT CTX-M-15 now appears to be the dominant extended-spectrum β-lactamase
worldwide, and a number of different factors may contribute to this success. These include …

Analysis of resistance to florfenicol and the related mechanism of dissemination in different animal-derived bacteria

P Li, T Zhu, D Zhou, W Lu, H Liu, Z Sun… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics has become an important concern for public health. This
study was aimed to investigate the characteristics and the distribution of the florfenicol …

Characterization of Tn3000, a Transposon Responsible for blaNDM-1 Dissemination among Enterobacteriaceae in Brazil, Nepal, Morocco, and India

JC Campos, MJF Da Silva… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
In Enterobacteriaceae, the bla NDM genes have been found in many different genetic
contexts, and a wide diversity of plasmid scaffolds bearing those genes has been found. In …

Core/Whole Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing and Core Genome SNP-Based Typing of OXA-48-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Clinical Isolates From Spain

E Miro, JWA Rossen, MA Chlebowicz… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS)-based typing methods have emerged as promising and
highly discriminative epidemiological tools. In this study, we combined gene-by-gene allele …

Multidrug resistance genes, including blaKPC and blaCTX-M-2, among Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated in Recife, Brazil

AB Cabral, RCA Melo, MAV Maciel… - Revista da Sociedade …, 2012 - SciELO Brasil
INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of cephalosporins and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella
pneumoniae strains is rising in Brazil, with potential serious consequences in terms of …

Characteristics of Plasmids in Multi-Drug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Isolated during Prospective Surveillance of a Newly Opened Hospital in Iraq

XZ Huang, JG Frye, MA Chahine, LSM Glenn, JA Ake… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Gram-negative multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria are major causes of
nosocomial infections, and antibiotic resistance in these organisms is often plasmid …

Characterization of globally spread Escherichia coli ST131 isolates (1991 to 2010)

 Novais, J Pires, H Ferreira, L Costa… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
The characterization of a broad representative sample of ST131 Escherichia coli isolates
from different origins and settings (1991 to 2010) revealed that this clonal group has likely …