Plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance among non-Typhi Salmonella enterica isolates, USA
Maria Sjölund-Karlsson1, Rebecca Howie, Regan Rickert
1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. fwt4@cdc.gov
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|October 30, 2010
Abstract:
We determined the prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance mechanisms among non-Typhi Salmonella spp. isolated from humans, food animals, and retail meat in the United States in 2007. Six isolates collected from humans harbored aac(6')Ib-cr or a qnr gene. Most prevalent was qnrS1. No animal or retail meat isolates harbored a plasmid-mediated mechanism.
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