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SUBMITTER: Godreuil S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC151722 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Godreuil Sylvain S Galimand Marc M Gerbaud Guy G Jacquet Christine C Courvalin Patrice P
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20030201 2
Five Listeria monocytogenes isolates (CLIP 21369, CLIP 73298, CLIP 74811, CLIP 75679, and CLIP 79372) were found to be resistant to fluoroquinolones during the screening for antibiotic resistance of 488 L. monocytogenes isolates from human cases of listeriosis in France. On the basis of a fourfold or greater decrease in the ciprofloxacin MIC in the presence of reserpine, fluoroquinolone resistance was attributed to active efflux of the drugs. The lde gene (Listeria drug efflux; formerly lmo2741) ...[more]