Characteristics of tet (X4)-Producing Escherichia coli in Chicken and Pig Farms in Hunan Province, China

• Published in: Antibiotics (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 147
• Main Authors: Yang, Jie, Xiao, Gang, Xiao, Ning, Jiang, Zonghan, Jiang, Chao, Li, Yujuan, Chen, Wenxin, Lin, Hongguang, Sun, Zhiliang, Li, Jiyun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 11.01.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Aminoglycosides; Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; Antiinfectives and antibacterials; Antimicrobial agents; Bacteria; Bioinformatics; chicken; Chickens; Chloramphenicol; Chloromycetin; Cities; Dilution; Drug resistance; E coli; Escherichia coli; Farms; Gene sequencing; Genes; Genomes; High resistance; Lincosamides; Multidrug resistance; Phylogenetics; pig; plasmid; Plasmids; Poultry farming; Public health; Quinolones; Surveillance; tet(X4); Tetracyclines; Tigecycline; China; Hunan China; plasmid; multidrug resistance; chicken; tet(X4); Escherichia coli; pig

The plasmid-mediated tigecycline resistance gene (X4) confers a high level of resistance to tigecycline. The experiment aims to investigate the prevalence and characterization of (X4) in isolates from chicken and pig farms in Hunan province, China. A total of six (X4) positive strains were identifie...