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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-2-23
pubmed:abstractText
A total of 162 clinical isolates of Shigella collected from children in a semi-rural community of Chile were examined for the presence of genetic determinants of resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, and trimethoprim. Ampicillin resistance was most frequently associated with the presence of bla(OXA) in S. flexneri and with bla(TEM) in S. sonnei. The bla(OXA) gene but not bla(TEM) was located in class 1 integrons. The dhfrIa gene encoding for resistance to trimethoprim was associated to class 2 integrons and detected exclusively in S. flexneri, whereas dhfrIIIc was found in all S. sonnei strains and in 10% of the S. flexneri isolates. Cat, coding for choramphenicol resistance, and bla(OXA) genes were located in the chromosome in all cases, whereas tetA gene, coding for tetracycline resistance, and bla(TEM), dhfrIa and dhfrIIIc genes were found either in the chromosome or in conjugative plasmids. Our results show a heterogenous distribution of antibiotic-resistance determinants between S. flexneri and S. sonnei.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0950-2688
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
133
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
81-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-5-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Genetic analysis of antibiotic-resistance determinants in multidrug-resistant Shigella strains isolated from Chilean children.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratorio de Antibióticos, Programa de Microbiología y Micología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. cetoro@med.uchile.cl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't