Resistance to apramycin in two enterobacterial clinical isolates: detection of a 3-N-acetyltransferase IV.
Considering the possible role of farm animals in the contamination of human consumers by plasmid-mediated apramycin-resistant enterobacteria strains, this type of resistance should be tested more systematically in human isolates. Very recently we isolated in Zaragoza one apramycin-resistant Escheria coli strain obtained from the blood of a hospitalized patient; this clinical isolate produced a plasmid-mediated 3-N-aminoglycoside acetyltransferase IV. We describe also the isolation in Madrid of one multiresistant Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical strain. This isolate harbored a single plasmid and carried determinants for apramycin, gentamicin, tobramycin, hygromycin B, streptomycin, and ampicillin, which could be transferred en bloc to E. coli K-12 J62. Extracts from donor and transconjugant strains carrying pUZ6776 plasmid produce acetyltransferase activity AAC(3)-IV and double phosphotransferase activity (HPH and APH(3'')).
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Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Rivera
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Gómez-Lus
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Gil
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Gómez-Lus
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Castillo
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Goñi
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Madero
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D000123:Acetyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009328:Nebramycin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D013045:Species Specificity
D009328:Nebramycin; C011666:apramycin; D000123:Acetyltransferases; C045539:aminoglycoside N(3')-acetyltransferase