Persistence of transferable oxazolidinone resistance genes in enterococcal isolates from a swine farm in China

The appearance of transferable oxazolidinone resistance genes poses a major challenge to public health and environmental safety. These genes not only lead pathogenic bacteria to become resistant to linezolid but also reduce sensitivity to florfenicol, which is widely used in the veterinary field. To...

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Main Authors: Zheren Huang, Yilin Bai, Qin Wang, Xue Yang, Tiejun Zhang, Xuan Chen, Hongning Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1010513/full