International Clone of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup A with Tetracycline Resistance Due to tet (B)
- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 49 (3) , 1198-200
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.49.3.1198-1200.2005
Abstract
Thirteen Neisseria meningitidis clinical isolates from Africa, Asia, and the United States for which the tetracycline MICs were elevated (≥8 μg/ml) were examined for 14 recognized resistance genes. Only the drug efflux mechanism encoded by tet (B) was detected. All isolates were in serogroup A, belonged to complex ST-5, and were closely related by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis.Keywords
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