New Gene Responsible for Resistance of Clinical Corynebacteria to Macrolide, Lincosamide and Streptogramin B

Resistance phenotype	Resistance genes (number of isolates and species)
Resistance phenotype	erm(X)	erm(C)	erm(X)+erm(C)	erm(X)+erm(C)+erm(A)
Clinical isolates	C. striatum C. glucuronolyticum C. amycolatum/xerosis	C. aurimucosum	C. jeikeium C. striatum C. aurimucosum	C. pseudituberculosis Corynebacterium sp.
E^RC^R	6	1	8	2
E^RC^S	0	1	0	0
E^SC^R	0	0	1	0
Skin microbiota	C. jeikeium C. tuberculostearicum Corynebacterium sp.
E^RC^R	13	0	0	0

1 E^RC^R – resistant both to erythromycin and clindamycin, E^RC^S – resistant to erythromycin and susceptible to clindamycin, E^SC^R –susceptible to erythromycin and resistant to clindamycin

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/pjm-2018-028 | Journal eISSN: 2544-4646 | Journal ISSN: 1733-1331

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Language: English

Page range: 237 - 240

Submitted on: Oct 16, 2017

Accepted on: Feb 20, 2018

Published on: Jun 30, 2018

Published by: Polish Society of Microbiologists

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

Corynebacterium spp.,

erm(C),

MLS_B,

resistance genes

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Life sciences,

Microbiology and virology

© 2018 MAGDALENA SZEMRAJ, ANNA KWASZEWSKA, ELIGIA M. SZEWCZYK, published by Polish Society of Microbiologists
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Volume 67 (2018): Issue 2 (June 2018)

New Gene Responsible for Resistance of Clinical Corynebacteria to Macrolide, Lincosamide and Streptogramin B

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