Tetracycline Resistance Genes in Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli Isolated From Poultry Carcasses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Campylobacter is one of the leading bacterial species causing foodborne illnesses in humans. Antimicrobial agents have been extensively used for treatment of Campylobacter infections; but in the recent years, both animal and human isolates of this bacterium have shown resistance to several antibiotics such as tetracycline.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of genetic determinants of tetracycline resistance in Campylobacter spp. recovered from poultry carcasses in Shiraz, Iran.

Materials and methods

Eighty-three thermophilic Campylobacter spp. Isolates were first identified based on multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and then screened for presence of tetracycline resistance genes (tet (A), tet (B), tet (O) and te (S)) by

SUBMITTER: Abdi-Hachesoo B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4255377 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature