Clonal diversity of Escherichia coli isolates carrying plasmid-mediated fosfomycin resistance gene fosA3 from livestock and other animals

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2014 Sep;58(9):5638-9. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02700-14. Epub 2014 Jun 30.

Authors

Jane Chan¹, Wai-U Lo¹, Kin-Hung Chow¹, Eileen L Lai¹, Pierra Y Law¹, Pak-Leung Ho²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Carol Yu Centre for Infection, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.
² Department of Microbiology and Carol Yu Centre for Infection, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong plho@hkucc.hku.hk.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Cats
Cattle
Chickens
Dogs
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics*
Escherichia coli / drug effects*
Escherichia coli / genetics*
Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
Escherichia coli Infections
Fosfomycin / pharmacology*
Genes, Bacterial / genetics*
Livestock
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Plasmids / genetics*
Swine

Substances

Fosfomycin