Journal article

Derepressed transfer properties leading to the efficient spread of the plasmid encoding carbapenemase OXA-48

Université de Fribourg

  • Potron, Anaïs INSERM U914, Emerging Resistance to Antibiotics, Faculté de Médecine et Université Paris-Sud, K. Bicêtre, France
  • Poirel, Laurent INSERM U914, Emerging Resistance to Antibiotics, Faculté de Médecine et Université Paris-Sud, K. Bicêtre, France - Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Nordmann, Patrice INSERM U914, Emerging Resistance to Antibiotics, Faculté de Médecine et Université Paris-Sud, K. Bicêtre, France - Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
    01.01.2014
Published in:
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. - 2013, vol. 58, no. 1, p. 467–471
English The current emergence of the carbapenemase OXA-48 among Enterobacteriaceae is related to the spread of a single IncL/M-type plasmid, pOXA-48a. This plasmid harbors the blaOXA-48 gene within a composite transposon, Tn1999, which is inserted into the tir gene, encoding a transfer inhibition protein. We showed that the insertion of Tn1999 into the tir gene was involved in a higher transfer frequency of plasmid pOXA-48a. This may likely be the key factor for the successful dissemination of this plasmid.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences et de médecine
Department
Médecine 3ème année
Language
  • English
Classification
Medicine
License
License undefined
Identifiers
Persistent URL
https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/303473
Statistics

Document views: 47 File downloads:
  • nor_dtp.pdf: 45