Incidence of the recently described sulfonamide resistance gene sul3 among German Salmonella enterica strains isolated from livestock and food.
The sul3 gene recently described in Escherichia coli was found in 22 of 512 (4.3%) German Salmonella isolates from different regions and sources and of different serotypes, antimicrobial resistance phenotypes, and genomic groups. This is the first report on the prevalence of sul3 among Salmonella strains, and the findings support the strong potential of this determinant to spread within bacterial populations.
Guerra
Beatriz
B
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Diedersdorfer Weg 1, D-12277 Berlin, Germany.
Junker
Ernst
E
Helmuth
Reiner
R
D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic / Q000382:microbiology*; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D015151:Immunoblotting; D008460:Meat / Q000382:microbiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D019779:Salmonella enterica / Q000235:genetics*; D013449:Sulfonamides / Q000494:pharmacology*
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C489157:Sul3 protein, Salmonella enterica; D013449:Sulfonamides