Drug resistance mechanism of the fish-pathogenic bacterium Lactococcus garvieae.

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Maki T, Hirono I, Kondo H, Aoki T

Drug resistance mechanism of the fish-pathogenic bacterium Lactococcus garvieae.

J Fish Dis. 2008 Jun;31(6):461-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2761.2008.00927.x.

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Abstract

The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of 15 chemotherapeutic agents were tested against 146 Lactococcus garvieae strains isolated from 1999 to 2006 in Japan. The agents used included chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, erythromycin (EM), enoxacin, fleroxacin, florfenicol, kanamycin, lincomycin (LCM), norfloxacin, oxolinic acid, orbifloxacin, ofloxacin, benzylpenicillin, streptomycin and tetracycline (TC). Of the tested strains, 46 showed high levels of resistance to EM, LCM and TC. Twelve of these strains were detected to be carrying transferable R-plasmids using a conjugation experiment and, using Southern hybridization, were shown to have the same structure as the R-plasmid. The remaining 34 resistant strains had a similar DNA structure to that of the R-plasmid as confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers designed from sites in the transferable R-plasmid. The EM and TC resistance genes were classified into the ermB and tetS groups using PCR. We also detected gyrA and/or parC mutants that are highly resistant to old and new generation quinolones. This study revealed that transferable R-plasmids encoding EM, LCM and TC are widely distributed and are conserved regardless of the area and/or time of collection.

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Drug	Target	Kind	Organism	Pharmacological Action	Actions
Enoxacin	DNA topoisomerase 2-alpha	Protein	Humans	No	Inhibitor	Details