Journal
ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 338-344Publisher
INST AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE
DOI: 10.26444/aaem/74718
Keywords
antibiotics; genetic determinants of resistance; transposons; transmission of resistance
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports - NPU I [LO1218]
- Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic [QJ1210301, RO0516]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
An excessive use of antimicrobial agents poses a risk for the selection of resistant bacteria. Of particular interest are antibiotics that have large consumption rates in both veterinary and human medicine, such as the tetracyclines and macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin (MLS) group of antibiotics. A high load of these agents increases the risk of transmission of resistant bacteria and/or resistance determinants to humans, leading to a subsequent therapeutic failure. An increasing incidence of bacteria resistant to both tetracyclines and MLS antibiotics has been recently observed. This review summarizes the current knowledge on different tetracycline and MLS resistance genes that can be linked together on transposable elements.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available