Antibiotic resistance has become a major threat to human health worldwide. Environment, particularly the water environment, has long been overlooked as a player in the antibiotic resistance cycle, although its role re...
supported by the Vice-Chancellor for Research grant(Grant No.U98-564)of Abadan University of Medical Science
Objective:To investigate the antimicrobial resistance patterns and prevalence of integrons in Shigella species isolated from children with diarrhea in southwest Iran.Methods:In this study,1530 stool samples were colle...
Objective: To investigate the frequency of integrase genes intI1, intI2 and intI3 of Escherichia coli strains, and their association with resistance to routinely used antibiotics. Methods: A total of 120 Escherichia c...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51378287).
Reclaimed water represents an important source of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes, threatening the ecological safety of receiving environments, while alleviating water resource shortages. This study invest...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81000754 and No. 81471994);received a grant from the Key Laboratory for Laboratory Medicine of Jiangsu Province of China(No.XK201114)
Rapid dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes among bacterial isolates is an increasing problem in China. Integron, a conserved DNA sequence, which is carried on episomal genetic structures, plays a very importan...
supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(No.25460532 and 26.04912)to Tadashi S.from the Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science,and Technology of Japan
PCR and DNA sequencing were used to screen and characterize integrons and resistance genes in Gram-negative bacteria isolated from seafood products in Japan.A total of 215 Gram-negative bacteria were isolated from loc...
supported by Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Research Fund Grants BAP-2013.102.03.12 and BAP-2013.102.03.13.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the leading nosocomial pathogens worldwide, and their infections are difficult to treat due to acquired resistance to many antibiotics. This study aimed to detect class 1 and 2 integro...
Transposable elements are capable of switching their positions on the genome thereby causing gene arrangements and contributing to genome evolution. The aim of this review is to specifically discuss the role of transp...
supported by Cell and Molecular Biology Research Center and Microbiology group of Tehran Medicine University,with grant number TUMS/CMBRC-89-007
Objective:To investigate antibiotic resistance and carriage class 1 and 2 integrons in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii(A.baumannii)from Tehran,Iran.Methods:Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was perform...
supported by the Research Fund from Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, WKJ2007‐2‐024
Objective To investigate the characteristic of integrons and the relationship between integrons and antimicrobial resistance in Shigella spp. Methods Ninety Shigella strains (83 S. flexneri and 7 S. sonnei) were iso...