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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1704.101009
Personal Author:
Cottell, Jennifer L.; Webber, Mark A.; Coldham, Nick G.; Taylor, Dafydd L.; Cerdeño-Tárraga, Anna M.; ... More +
Cottell, Jennifer L.; Webber, Mark A.; Coldham, Nick G.; Taylor, Dafydd L.; Cerdeño-Tárraga, Anna M.; Hauser, Heidi; Thomson, Nicholas R.; Woodward, Martin J.; Piddock, Laura J.V.; Less -
Description:
Antimicrobial drug resistance is a global challenge for the 21st century with the emergence of resistant bacterial strains worldwide. Transferable resistance to β-lactam antimicrobial drugs, mediated by production of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs), is of particular concern. In 2004, an ESBL-carrying IncK plasmid (pCT) was isolated from cattle in the United Kingdom. The sequence was a 93,629-bp plasmid encoding a single antimicrobial drug resistance gene, blaCTX-M-14. From this information, PCRs identifying novel features of pCT were designed and applied to isolates from several countries, showing that the plasmid has disseminated worldwide in bacteria from humans and animals. Complete DNA sequences can be used as a platform to develop rapid epidemiologic tools to identify and trace the spread of plasmids in clinically relevant pathogens, thus facilitating a better understanding of their distribution and ability to transfer between bacteria of humans and animals.
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Animals
Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
Bacteria
Beta-Lactamases
Cattle
CTX-M
Epidemiology
Escherichia Coli
Extended-spectrum Beta-lactamase
Gene Order
Great Britain
Humans
Molecular Epidemiology
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
Plasmid
Plasmids
Research
Research

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 17(4):645-652.;
Document Type:
Journal Article;
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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