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Plasmid-mediated tigecycline-resistant gene tet (X4) in Escherichia coli from food-producing animals, China, 2008–2018
1 Jan 2019
Abstract excerpt
The recent emergence of plasmid-mediated tigecycline resistance genes, tet(X3) and tet(X4), in animals and humans in China would pose a foreseeable threat to public health. To illustrate this paradigm shift in tigecycline resistance, here, covering the period 2008-2018, we retrospectively analysed a national strain collection of Escherichia coli (n = 2254), obtained from chickens and pigs, in six representative...
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