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High diversity of plasmids harbouring blaCMY-2 among clinical Escherichia coli isolates from humans and companion animals in the upper Midwestern USA.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jun 2014
Bortolaia Valeria, Hansen Katrine H, Nielsen Christine A, Fritsche Thomas R, Guardabassi Luca
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OBJECTIVES: To determine the population structure and genetic relatedness of plasmids encoding CMY-2 β-lactamase in clinical Escherichia coli from humans and companion animals within a defined geographical area. METHODS: In total, 42 human and 73 companion animal isolates displaying an AmpC phenotype were isolated at a regional diagnostic reference laboratory in the upper Midwestern USA during 2009-11. Following...
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