Distribution of the Multidrug Resistance Gene cfr in Staphylococcus Species Isolates from Swine Farms in China

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2012-03-01
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Wang, Yang
Zhang, Wanjiang
Wang, Juan
Wu, Congming
Shen, Zhangqi
Fu, Xiao
Yan, Yang
Zhang, Qijing
Schwarz, Stefan
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A total of 149 porcine Staphylococcus isolates with florfenicol MICs of ≥16 μg/ml were screened for the presence of the multiresistance gene cfr, its location on plasmids, and its genetic environment. In total, 125 isolates carried either cfr (16 isolates), fexA (92 isolates), or both genes (17 isolates). The 33 cfr-carrying staphylococci, which included isolates of the species Staphylococcus cohnii, S. arlettae, and S. saprophyticus in which the cfr gene has not been described before, exhibited a wide variety of SmaI pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns. In 18 cases, the cfr gene was located on plasmids. Four different types of cfr-carrying plasmids—pSS-01 (n = 2; 40 kb), pSS-02 (n = 3; 35.4 kb), pSS-03 (n = 10; 7.1 kb), and pBS-01 (n = 3; 16.4 kb)—were differentiated on the basis of their sizes, restriction patterns, and additional resistance genes. Sequence analysis revealed that in plasmid pSS-01, the cfr gene was flanked in the upstream part by a complete aacA-aphD-carrying Tn4001-like transposon and in the downstream part by a complete fexA-carrying transposon Tn558. In plasmid pSS-02, an insertion sequence IS21-558 and the cfr gene were integrated into transposon Tn558 and thereby truncated the tnpA and tnpB genes. The smallest cfr-carrying plasmid pSS-03 carried the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance gene erm(C). Plasmid pBS-01, previously described in Bacillus spp., harbored a Tn917-like transposon, including the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance gene erm(B) in the cfr downstream region. Plasmids, which in part carry additional resistance genes, seem to play an important role in the dissemination of the gene cfr among porcine staphylococci.

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This article is published as Wang, Yang, Wanjiang Zhang, Juan Wang, Congming Wu, Zhangqi Shen, Xiao Fu, Yang Yan, Qijing Zhang, Stefan Schwarz, and Jianzhong Shen. "Distribution of the multidrug resistance gene cfr in Staphylococcus species isolates from swine farms in China." Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 56, no. 3 (2012): 1485-1490. doi: 10.1128/AAC.05827-11. Posted with permission.

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