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Molecular characterization of metronidazole resistant Bacteroides strains from Kuwait.
Anaerobe - 1 Jun 2021
Baaity Zain, Jamal Wafaa, Rotimi Vincent O, Burián Katalin, Leitsch David, Somogyvári Ferenc, Nagy Elisabeth, Sóki József
Abstract excerpt
Eleven metronidazole resistant Bacteroides and one newly classified Phocaeicola dorei strain from Kuwait were investigated for their resistance mechanisms and the emergence of their resistant plasmids. All but one strain harbored nimE genes on differently sized plasmids. Of the 11 nimE genes, 9 were preceded by full copies of the prototype ISBf6 insertion sequence element, one carried a truncated ISBf6 and one...
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