We searched for plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants of the Qnr type in several water samples collected at diverse locations from the Seine River (Paris, France). The qnrS2 genes were identified from Aeromonas punctata subsp. punctata and A. media. The qnrS2 gene was located on IncU-type plasmids in both isolates, which resulted in increased MIC values of quinolones and fluoroquin...

سابقه و هدف: سلامت خاک از مولفه ‏های اصلی در دستیابی به سامانه ‏‏های کشاورزی پایدار بوده که شدت تحت تاثیر عملیات زراعی مانند خاکورزی قرار می ‏گیرد. را توان با استفاده پارامترهای فیزیکی، شیمیایی بیولوژیکی قالب الگوریتم‏ های مشخص کمّی کرد. نتیجه، بررسی وضعیت کیفی باروری مدیریتی مختلف زمین جهت استقرار مناسب برای تولید بهینه نظام‌های امری ضروری می‏ باشد. چارچوب ارزیابی مدیریت SMAF 1 عنوان ابزاری قدر...

Twenty-eight of the 302 Salmonella strains isolated from patients with overseas travelers' diarrhea who were examined at Kansai Airport Department Station during the 6-year period between 2001 and 2007 showed decreased susceptibility to both nalidixic acid (NA) and ciprofloxacin (CPFX) (MIC of NA, 16-64 microg/mL; MIC of CPFX, 0.064-2.0 microg/mL). These 28 strains revealed no variations in the...

Although resistance to quinolones is commonly chromosomally-encoded in Enterobacteriaceae, the emergence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) has also been reported, with at least three known resistance mechanisms to date, i.e., Qnr, aminoglycoside acetyltransferase AAC(6')-Ib-cr and QepA. Qnr proteins protect target enzymes (DNA gyrase and type IV topoisomerase) from quinolone inhib...

background :    klebsiella pneumoniae is among the most common and significant agents of community and hospital-acquired infections. plasmid mediated quinolone resistance (pmqr) was increasingly identified in enterobacteriaceae family worldwide. plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (pmqr) was first reported in 1998 from a klebsiella pneumoniae isolate in the usa. till date, five qnr proteins h...

This work describes the characterization of plasmid-mediated quinolone-resistance (PMQR) genes from a multicenter study of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae pediatric clinical isolates in Mexico. The PMQR gene-positive isolates were characterized with respect to ESBLs, and mutations in the GyrA and ParC proteins were determined. The phylogenetic relationship was established by PFGE and the tran...

The prevalence of three plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants, QnrA, QnrB, and QnrS, among 526 nonreplicate clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae collected at a Taiwanese university hospital in 2004 was determined by PCR and colony hybridization, and the association of Qnr with the IMP-8 metallo-beta-lactamase was investigated. Eighty-six (16.3%) of all isolates were qnr positi...

Alanine substitution mutations in the Cry1Ac domain III region, from amino acid residues 503 to 525, were constructed to study the functional role of domain III in the toxicity and receptor binding of the protein to Lymantria dispar, Manduca sexta, and Heliothis virescens. Five sets of alanine block mutants were generated at the residues (503)SS(504), (506)NNI(508), (509)QNR(511), (522)ST(523),...