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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2013

Characterization of recombinant fluoroquinolone-resistant pneumococcus-like isolates.

Luz Balsalobre, Montserrat Ortega, Adela G de la Campa

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Luz BalsalobreUnidad de Genética Bacteriana, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III and CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Majadahonda. luzbal@isciii.es
Montserrat Ortega
Adela G de la Campa
Centro Nacional de Microbiologia · ESInstituto de Salud Carlos III · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fourteen fluoroquinolone-resistant streptococcal isolates with recombinant DNA topoisomerase genes, preliminarily identified as pneumococci, were further characterized using phenotypic and genotypic approaches. Phenotypic tests classified them as atypical pneumococci. Phylogenetic relationships were analyzed by using the sequences of seven housekeeping alleles from these isolates and from isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, and Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae. Four isolates grouped with S. pneumoniae, seven grouped with S. pseudopneumoniae, and three grouped with S. mitis. These results generally agreed with those obtained with an optochin susceptibility test and with the organization of the atp operon chromosomal region, encoding the F(o)F(1) H(+)-ATPase (the target of optochin). All seven isolates grouping with S. pseudopneumoniae share the same spr1368-atpC-atpA gene order; all four grouping with S. pneumoniae share the spr1368-IS1239-atpC-atpA order, and two out of the three grouping with S. mitis share the spr1284-atpC-atpA order. In addition, evidence for recombination within the seven housekeeping alleles of the S. pseudopneumoniae population was provided by several methods: the index of association (0.4598, P < 0.001), the pairwise homoplasy index, and the split-decomposition method. This study confirms the existence of pneumococci among the alpha-hemolytic streptococci with DNA topoisomerase genes showing a mosaic structure and reveals a close relationship between atypical pneumococci and S. pseudopneumoniae.

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Chromosomes, BacterialRecombination, GeneticAllelesAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsBacterial Typing TechniquesChromosome MappingDNA TopoisomerasesGenes, EssentialGenotypeOperonPhenotypePhylogenyProton-Translocating ATPasesQuinineStreptococcusAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsDNA TopoisomerasesethylhydrocupreineProton-Translocating ATPasesQuinine

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PMID23114769
PMCPMC3535940
OpenAlexW2127583476

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