Identification of the novel spectinomycin resistance gene spd in a different plasmid background among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC398 and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus ST433

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2014 Jul;69(7):2000-3. doi: 10.1093/jac/dku067. Epub 2014 Mar 19.

Authors

Sarah Wendlandt¹, Andrea T Feßler¹, Kristina Kadlec¹, Engeline van Duijkeren², Stefan Schwarz³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany.
² Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
³ Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany stefan.schwarz@fli.bund.de.

PMID: 24648508
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dku067

No abstract available

Keywords: MRSA; MSSA; aminocyclitol resistance; horizontal gene transfer; plasmid replication gene.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Animals
Humans
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / enzymology*
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification*
Nucleotidyltransferases / genetics*
Plasmids / isolation & purification*
Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology*
Staphylococcal Infections / veterinary*

Substances

Nucleotidyltransferases