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SUBMITTER: Shiraki Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3322752 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shiraki Yutaka Y Shibata Naohiro N Doi Yohei Y Arakawa Yoshichika Y
Emerging infectious diseases 20040101 1
From November 2000 to June 2001, Escherichia coli strains producing CTX-M-2 beta-lactamase were isolated from 6 (1.5%) of 396 cattle fecal samples and 2 (0.7%) of 270 surface swabs of cattle carcasses in Japan. The blaCTX-M-2 gene responsible for CTX-M-2 production was encoded on transferable plasmids, and the gene was transferred to E. coli CSH2 with a very high frequency (2 x 10(-4) to 6 x 10(-1) per donor cells) by conjugation. Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis of nine isolates showed ...[more]