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Escherichia coli as Reservoir for Macrolide Resistance Genes |
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| Authors: | Minh Chau Phuc Nguyen Paul-Louis Woerther Mathilde Bouvet Antoine Andremont Roland Leclercq Annie Canu |
| Affiliation: | Université de Caen, Caen, France (M.C.P. Nguyen, M. Bouvet, R. Leclercq, A. Canu);University Paris-Diderot Medical School, Paris, France (P.-L. Woerther, A. Andremont) |
| Abstract: | The plasmid-borne mph(A) gene that confers resistance to azithromycin and has recently emerged in Shigella sonnei is present in multidrug- and non–multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from 4 continents. Further spread of mph(A) to Shigella and Salmonella spp. may be expected. |
| Keywords: | Antimicrobial resistance shigellosis azithromycin erythromycin Escherichia coli bacteria dispatch |