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RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 157, Issue 3, Pages 220-226Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2005.08.003
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antibiotics; MAR bacteria; class 1 integrons; gene cassettes; copiotrophs; trimethoprim resistance
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The presence of class I integrons in multiple-antibiotic-resistant (MAR) Gram-negative copiotrophic bacteria from the River Torsa in India was detected using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based screening method. Among 100 isolates that were resistant to at least five of the twelve antibiotics tested, 40 carried class I integrons, with inserted DNA regions of 0.7-3,2 kb. Carriage of integrons in strains of higher MAR index was found to be statistically significant. DNA sequencing was used to identify the genetic content of the integron-variable regions. In addition to the identification of gene cassettes dfrA1, dfrA5, dfrA7, dfrA17 and a variant of dfrA12 for trimethoprim, aac(6')-Ib for amikacin and tobramycin and aadAI and aadA6 for streptomycin and spectinomycin resistance, a novel ORF predicted from a sequence of Morganella sp. TR 90 bearing homology with the Vibrio cholerae dfrA1 gene cassette was characterized. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the incidence and abundance of class I integrons in copiotrophic river water bacteria from India. (c) 2005 Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.
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