Article
Prevalence and molecular characterization of tetracycline resistance in Enterococcus isolates from food.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Mar 2004
Huys Geert, D'Haene Klaas, Collard Jean-Marc, Swings Jean
Abstract excerpt
In the present study, a collection of 187 Enterococcus food isolates mainly originating from European cheeses were studied for the phenotypic and genotypic assessment of tetracycline (TC) resistance. A total of 45 isolates (24%) encompassing the species Enterococcus faecalis (n = 33), E. durans (n = 7), E. faecium (n = 3), E. casseliflavus (n = 1), and E. gallinarum (n = 1) displayed phenotypic resistance to TC...
Topics
- Cheese
- Conjugation, Genetic
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
- Enterococcus
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Enterococcus faecium
- Europe
- Food Microbiology
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Tetracycline Resistance