We determined the macrolide resistance phenotypes of 241 clinical isolates of erythromycin-resistant enterococci (MICs, > or = 1 microg/ml), including 147 Enterococcus faecalis strains and 94 Enterococcus faecium strains, collected from a hospital in Seoul, Korea, between 1999 and 2000. By the erythromycin (40 micro g)-josamycin (100 microg) double-disk test, 93 strains were assigned to the con...

The conversion of cattle manure into biogas in anaerobic digestion (AD) processes has been gaining attention recent years. However, antibiotic consumption continues to increase worldwide, which is why antimicrobial concentrations can be expected rise and digestate. This study examined the long-term synergistic effects antimicrobials on manure. prevalence resistance genes (ARGs) changes microbia...

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) pose a widespread concern for human health and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are considered to be major source of ARG transmission. In this paper, the potential hosts genetic characteristics ARGs in influent, activated sludge effluent WWTPs Xinjiang were studied by metagenomics. Bacitracin gene (bacA), beta-lactamase (class A beta-lactamase), multidrug (...

The anti-staphylococcal activity of ABT-773, a new member of the ketolides, was examined and compared with those of erythromycin and clarithromycin using the agar dilution method. A total of 336 well-defined clinical isolates of staphylococci, including a large number of clonally different methicillin-resistant strains with defined macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B (MLS(B)) resistance pheno...

Five hundred and seventy-eight strains of group A streptococci (GAS) isolated mostly from paediatric pharyngeal swabs were tested to evaluate their susceptibility to erythromycin. Resistant strains were then tested for their MICs to erythromycin and clindamycin, their phenotype of resistance to macrolides-lincosamides-streptogramin (MLS(B)) and for the presence of macrolide resistance genes. Th...

The intrinsic resistance of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) to most antibiotics, including macrolides, is generally attributed to the low permeability of the mycobacterial cell wall. However, nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are much more sensitive to macrolides than members of the MTC. A search for macrolide resistance determinants within the genome of M. tuberculosis revealed th...