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SUBMITTER: Deng F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4576093 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Deng Fengru F Shen Jianzhong J Zhang Maojun M Wu Congming C Zhang Qijing Q Wang Yang Y
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20150810 10
Macrolides are the antimicrobials of choice for treating human campylobacteriosis. The recent emergence of erm(B) in Campylobacter bacteria threatens the utility of this class of antibiotics. Here we report the constitutive and inducible expression of erm(B) in Campylobacter isolates derived from diarrheal patients and food-producing animals. Constitutive expression of erm(B) was associated with insertion and deletion in the regulatory region of the gene, providing the first documentation of the ...[more]