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SUBMITTER: Naemi AO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7010723 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Naemi Ali-Oddin AO Dey Hymonti H Kiran Nosheen N Sandvik Sarah Torbergsen ST Slettemeås Jannice Schau JS Nesse Live L LL Simm Roger R
Frontiers in microbiology 20200204
Polyether ionophores are antimicrobial compounds used as feed additives in poultry feed to control diseases caused by coccidia. In addition to the anticoccidial activity of these compounds, polyether ionophores also contain antibacterial properties. Resistance to the polyether ionophore narasin was recently shown to exist on mobile plasmids in <i>Enterococcus faecium</i> and the resistance mechanism was suggested to be associated with a two-gene operon encoding an ABC-type transporter. In this s ...[more]