International Clone of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup A with Tetracycline Resistance Due to tet(B)

AUTOR(ES)

Crawford, Sharon A.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Thirteen Neisseria meningitidis clinical isolates from Africa, Asia, and the United States for which the tetracycline MICs were elevated (≥8 μg/ml) were examined for 14 recognized resistance genes. Only the drug efflux mechanism encoded by tet(B) was detected. All isolates were in serogroup A, belonged to complex ST-5, and were closely related by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis.

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