Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9122070 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The prevalence of tetracycline resistance, and of specific genetic determinants for this resistance was investigated in 1003 strains of Enterococcus faecalis isolated from various raw food products originating from five categories including chicken meat, other poultry meat, beef, pork, and 'other'. For the 238 resistant isolates identified, the ability to transfer the resistant phenotype to a given recipient in vitro was investigated. New and interesting observations were that the tet(L) resistance determinant was more readily transferred than tet(M), and that the presence of Tn916-like elements known to encode tet(M) did not correlate with increased transferability of the resistant phenotype.
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Authors
Andrea Wilcks, Sigrid Rita Andersen, Tine Rask Licht,