Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases 7 ► Pathogenicity / Antimicrobial Resistance

Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 34  Number 23  June 11-18, 2015

Pathogenicity / Antimicrobial Resistance

Characterisation of a mobilisable plasmid conferring florfenicol and chloramphenicol resistance in Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae.
Bossé JT et al. Vet. Microbiol. 2015 May 28.

Evaluation of the relationship between Chlamydia pecorum sequence types and disease using a species-specific multi-locus sequence typing scheme (MLST).
Jelocnik M et al. Vet. Microbiol. 2014 Nov 7. (1-2) 214-22

Molecular characterization of antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella isolates: First identification of a plasmid carrying qnrD or oqxAB in Taiwan.
Kao Cheng-Yen et al. J Microbiol Immunol Infect 2015 May 14.

The use of whole-genome sequencing for molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial surveillance: identifying the role of IncX3 plasmids and the spread of blaNDM-4-like genes in the Enterobacteriaceae.
Espedido BA et al. J. Clin. Pathol. 2015 Jun 8.

Current perspectivesin pathogenesis and antimicrobial resistance of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli.
Kong H et al. Microb. Pathog. 2015 Jun 6.

Shifts in the antibiotic susceptibility, serogroups, and clonal complexes of Neisseria meningitidis in Shanghai, China: A time trend analysis of the pre-quinolone and quinolone eras.
Chen M et al. PLoS Med. 2015 Jun (6) e1001838

An outbreak of infections caused by extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains during a short period of time in a Chinese teaching hospital: epidemiology study and molecular characteristics.
Zhou T et al. Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2015 Jul (3) 240-4

Emergence of colistin resistance without loss of fitness and virulence after prolonged colistin administration in a patient with extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.
Durante-Mangoni E et al. Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2015 Jul (3) 222-6

The genetics of Leishmania virulence.
Bifeld E et al. Med. Microbiol. Immunol. 2015 Jun 6.