Horizontal Transfer of the Tetracycline Resistance Gene tetM Mediated by pCF10 Among Enterococcus faecalis in the House Fly (Musca domestica L.) Alimentary Canal

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mastura Akhtar ◽  
Helmut Hirt ◽  
Ludek Zurek
Keyword(s):  
Resistance Gene ◽  
Enterococcus Faecalis ◽  
Musca Domestica ◽  
Horizontal Transfer ◽  
Alimentary Canal ◽  
Tetracycline Resistance ◽  
House Fly ◽  
Tetracycline Resistance Gene

scholarly journals Novel Tetracycline Resistance Determinant from the Oral Metagenome

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1430-1432 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Diaz-Torres ◽  
R. McNab ◽  
D. A. Spratt ◽  
A. Villedieu ◽  
N. Hunt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resistance Gene ◽  
Tetracycline Resistance ◽  
Resistance Determinant ◽  
Tetracycline Resistance Gene ◽  
Major Drawback

ABSTRACT A major drawback of most studies on how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics is that they concentrate mainly on bacteria that can be cultivated in the laboratory. In the present study, we cloned part of the oral metagenome and isolated a novel tetracycline resistance gene, tet(37), which inactivates tetracycline.

scholarly journals Occurrence of the New Tetracycline Resistance Gene tet(W) in Bacteria from the Human Gut

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 775-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen P. Scott ◽  
Claire M. Melville ◽  
Teresa M. Barbosa ◽  
Harry J. Flint
Keyword(s):  
Resistance Gene ◽  
Bifidobacterium Longum ◽  
Tetracycline Resistance ◽  
Human Feces ◽  
Human Gut ◽  
Tetracycline Resistance Gene ◽  
Butyrivibrio Fibrisolvens

ABSTRACT Members of our group recently identified a new tetracycline resistance gene, tet(W), in three genera of rumen obligate anaerobes. Here, we show that tet(W) is also present in bacteria isolated from human feces. The tet(W) genes found in human Fusobacterium prausnitzii andBifidobacterium longum isolates were more than 99.9% identical to those from a rumen isolate of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens.

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