Journal
CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 714-718Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03379.x
Keywords
Antibiotic resistance determinant; class 1 integron; gram-positive bacteria; mobile genetic element; MRSA
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- Science Foundation, Ministry of Education of China [706046]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20877028]
- China Scholarship Council [2008615044]
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As a novel antibiotic resistance determinant, investigation of the occurrence and characteristics of class 1 integron was performed on nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains sampled during 2001-2006. Seventy-six out of 179 (42.5%) of the tested strains were found to carry class 1 integrons, with four unique arrays of gene cassettes detected. This is the first report of the comprehensive identification and typing of class 1 integrons in clinical MRSA isolates over a 6-year period, representing the first evidence for class 1 integrons as possible antibiotic resistance determinants in clinical MRSA strains.
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