Recovery of a functional class 2 integron from an Escherichia coli strain mediating a urinary tract infection.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Facultad de Ciencias, Cátedra de Microbiología, Instituto de Química Biológica, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Published: November 2008

A class 2 integron was found in an Escherichia coli isolate mediating a urinary tract infection. Unlike other class 2 integrons from pathogens, the encoded IntI2 protein was functional. The integron possessed a dfrA14 cassette, and a second novel cassette in which a lipoprotein signal peptidase gene is predicted.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2573131PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00710-08DOI Listing

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