A mosaic tetracycline resistance gene tet(S/M) detected in an MDR pneumococcal CC230 lineage that underwent capsular switching in South Africa.
Lo SW, Gladstone RA, van Tonder AJ, Du Plessis M, Cornick JE, Hawkins PA, Madhi SA, Nzenze SA, Kandasamy R, Ravikumar KL, Elmdaghri N, Kwambana-Adams B, Almeida SCG, Skoczynska A, Egorova E, Titov L, Saha SK, Paragi M, Everett DB, Antonio M, Klugman KP, Li Y, Metcalf BJ, Beall B, McGee L, Breiman RF, Bentley SD, von Gottberg A; Global Pneumococcal Sequencing Consortium.
Lo SW, et al.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2020 Mar 1;75(3):512-520. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkz477.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2020.
PMID: 31789384
Free PMC article.
RESULTS: We identified tet(S/M) in 131 pneumococcal isolates and none carried other known tet genes. ...All but two tet(S/M)-positive isolates belonged to clonal complex (CC) 230. A global phylogeny of CC230 (n=389) revealed that tet(S/M)-positive isolates fo …
RESULTS: We identified tet(S/M) in 131 pneumococcal isolates and none carried other known tet genes. ...All but two tet(S/M)-p …