Genomic islands 1 and 2 carry multiple antibiotic resistance genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST235, ST253, ST111 and ST175 and are globally dispersed

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2017 Feb;72(2):620-622. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkw471. Epub 2016 Dec 20.

Authors

Piklu Roy Chowdhury^{1

2}, Martin J Scott³, Steven P Djordjevic³

Affiliations

¹ The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Science, PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia Piklu.Bhattacharya@uts.edu.au.
² Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agriculture Institute, PMB 4008, Camden, NSW 2567, Australia.
³ The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Science, PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia.

PMID: 27999026
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkw471

No abstract available

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Asia / epidemiology
Computational Biology / methods
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics*
Europe / epidemiology
Genomic Islands*
Humans
Pseudomonas Infections / epidemiology
Pseudomonas Infections / microbiology
Pseudomonas aeruginosa / drug effects
Pseudomonas aeruginosa / genetics*
South America / epidemiology
United States / epidemiology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents