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SUBMITTER: Tribble GD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3010312 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tribble Gena D GD Garza John J JJ Yeung Victor L VL Rigney Todd W TW Dao Doan-Hieu V DH Rodrigues Paulo H PH Walker Clay B CB Smith Charles J CJ
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Prevotella species are members of the bacterial oral flora and are opportunistic pathogens in polymicrobial infections of soft tissues. Antibiotic resistance to tetracyclines is common in these bacteria, and the gene encoding this resistance has been previously identified as tetQ. The tetQ gene is also found on conjugative transposons in the intestinal Bacteroides species; whether these related bacteria have transmitted tetQ to Prevotella is unknown. In this study, we describe our genetic analys ...[more]