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SUBMITTER: Carattoli A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC127428 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carattoli Alessandra A Filetici Emma E Villa Laura L Dionisi Anna Maria AM Ricci Antonia A Luzzi Ida I
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20020901 9
Fifty-four epidemiologically unrelated multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolates, collected between 1992 and 2000 in Italy, were analyzed for the presence of integrons. Strains were also tested for Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1), carrying antibiotic resistance genes in DT104 strains. A complete SGI1 was found in the majority of the DT104 strains. Two DT104 strains, showing resistance to streptomycin-spectinomycin and sulfonamides, carried a partially deleted SGI1 l ...[more]