Tetracycline resistance in Ureaplasma spp. and Mycoplasma hominis: prevalence in Bordeaux, France, from 1999 to 2002 and description of two tet(M)-positive isolates of M. hominis susceptible to tetracyclines.
Twenty-four of 128 clinical isolates of Mycoplasma hominis and 6 of 276 clinical isolates of Ureaplasma spp. from Bordeaux, France (1999 to 2002), were resistant to tetracycline and harbored the tet(M) gene. For M. hominis, we also found an increase in tetracycline resistance and two tet(M)-positive isolates that were susceptible to tetracyclines.
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Laboratoire de Bactériologie EA 3671, Mycoplasma and chlamydiae infections in humans, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009175:Mycoplasma Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D019535:Mycoplasma hominis / Q000187:drug effects*; D015995:Prevalence; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013753:Tetracycline Resistance; D013754:Tetracyclines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014509:Ureaplasma / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects*; D016869:Ureaplasma Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; C083138:Tet M resistance protein, Bacteria; D013754:Tetracyclines