| Title | Escherichia coli as Reservoir for Macrolide Resistance Genes. | | Author(s) | Phuc Nguyen MC, Woerther PL, Bouvet M, Andremont A, Leclercq R, Canu A | | Institution | Universite de Caen, Caen, France (M.C.P. Nguyen, M. Bouvet, R. Leclercq, A. Canu); and University Paris-Diderot Medical School, Paris, France (P.-L. Woerther, A. Andremont). | | Source | Emerg Infect Dis 2009 Oct; 15(10):1648-50. | | Abstract | The plasmid-borne mph(A) gene that confers resistance to azithromycin and has recently emerged in Shigella sonnei is present in multidrug- and non-multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from 4 continents. Further spread of mph(A) to Shigella and Salmonella spp. may be expected. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 19861064 |
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