Earliest observation of the tetracycline destructase tet(X3)

Earliest observation of the tetracycline destructase tet(X3)

ABSTRACTTigecycline is an antibiotic of last resort for infections with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Plasmids harboring variants of the tetracycline destructase gene tetX promote rising tigecycline resistance rates. We report the earliest observation of tet(X3) in a clinical strain...

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Main Authors: Frédéric Grenier, Simon Lévesque, Sébastien Rodrigue, Louis-Patrick Haraoui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024-04-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
antimicrobial resistance
tetracycline destructase
tet(X3)
blaOXA-58
Acinetobacter junii
Israel
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03327-23

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