High-level Tetracycline Resistance Resulting from TetM in Strains of Neisseria Spp., Kingella Denitrificans, and Eikenella Corrodens

Overview

Journal Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 1988 May 1

PMID 3134850

Citations 41

Authors

J S Knapp

S R Johnson

J M Zenilman

M C Roberts

S A Morse

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Abstract

Similar to Neisseria gonorrhoeae, tetracycline-resistant isolates of N. meningitidis, Kingella denitrificans, and Eikenella corrodens contained 25.2-megadalton plasmids carrying the TetM determinant. In contrast, tetracycline-resistant N. subflava biovar perflava-N. sicca and N. mucosa isolates carried the TetM determinant in the chromosome.

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