Dissemination of blaCMY-2 among Escherichia coli isolates from food animals, retail ground meats, and humans in southern Taiwan

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 Apr;48(4):1353-6. doi: 10.1128/AAC.48.4.1353-1356.2004.

Abstract

Twenty-six Escherichia coli isolates recovered from food animal feces and retail ground meats and 14 urinary E. coli isolates from outpatients were shown to carry bla(CMY-2). Similar CMY-2-encoding plasmids were found among seven human and three ground-pork isolates. These data indicate the community spread of bla(CMY-2) in southern Taiwan.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chickens
  • Escherichia coli / genetics*
  • Feces / microbiology
  • Genes, Bacterial / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Meat / microbiology*
  • Plasmids / genetics
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Swine
  • Taiwan / epidemiology
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*

Substances

  • beta-lactamase CMY-2
  • beta-Lactamases