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SUBMITTER: Ahmed AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2075039 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahmed Ashraf M AM Motoi Yusuke Y Sato Maiko M Maruyama Akito A Watanabe Hitoshi H Fukumoto Yukio Y Shimamoto Tadashi T
Applied and environmental microbiology 20070824 20
A total of 232 isolates of gram-negative bacteria were recovered from mammals, reptiles, and birds housed at Asa Zoological Park, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan. Forty-nine isolates (21.1%) showed multidrug resistance phenotypes and harbored at least one antimicrobial resistance gene. PCR and DNA sequencing identified class 1 and class 2 integrons and many beta-lactamase-encoding genes, in addition to a novel AmpC beta-lactamase gene, bla(CMY-26). Furthermore, the plasmid-mediated quinolone resista ...[more]