Integron-associated antibiotic resistance and phylogenetic grouping of Escherichia coli isolates from healthy subjects free of recent antibiotic exposure.
The study of integrons in 181 Escherichia coli isolates from three groups of healthy subjects who lived in communities and had not taken antibiotics for at least 1 month showed that the presence of integrons was associated with antibiotic resistance and phylogenetic grouping of the bacterial host and dependent on a subject's living environment.
Skurnik
David
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Université Paris 7 and Groupe Hospitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France.
Le Menac'h
Arnaud
A
Zurakowski
David
D
Mazel
Didier
D
Courvalin
Patrice
P
Denamur
Erick
E
Andremont
Antoine
A
Ruimy
Raymond
R
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D032023:Integrons / Q000235:genetics*; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology*; D010802:Phylogeny
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents