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SUBMITTER: Matsumoto Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4249566 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Matsumoto Yuko Y Izumiya Hidemasa H Sekizuka Tsuyoshi T Kuroda Makoto M Ohnishi Makoto M
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20140922 12
The acquisition of resistance to cephalosporins among Salmonella spp. is a major public health concern. This study identified clonal plasmids carrying bla(TEM-52) from 10 Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis and Manhattan isolates from retail chicken meats that originated from a common supplier in Japan. Whole-genome analyses of the representative plasmids, including pYM4, revealed that they are 38 kb in size and that pYM4 is identical to pDKX1 from beef in Denmark, suggesting a global dissemina ...[more]