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SUBMITTER: Lavigne JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1693975 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lavigne Jean-Philippe JP Marchandin Hélène H Delmas Julien J Bouziges Nicole N Lecaillon Evelyne E Cavalie Laurent L Jean-Pierre Hélène H Bonnet Richard R Sotto Albert A
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20060918 12
By PCR, we screened for qnr genes 112 clinical isolates of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli collected from hospitals in France during 2004. For the first time, 7.7% of CTX-M-producing E. coli isolates presented a plasmid-mediated resistance to quinolones. All strains harbored a qnrA gene located on a sul1-type class 1 integron with similar structure to the In36 integron. ...[more]