Silent Genes: Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Production
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ELŻBIETA MAĆKIW
Department of Food Safety, National Institute of Public Health NIH – National Research InstituteWarsaw, Poland
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Article Category: mini-review
Published Online: Oct 16, 2021
Page range: 421 - 429
Received: Jul 26, 2021
Accepted: Sep 15, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33073/pjm-2021-040
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Prevalence of silent antimicrobial resistance genes in different bacteria species_
| Microorganism | Gene | Number of strains tested | Number of susceptible strains carrying antimicrobial resistance genes | Percent of susceptible strains carrying antimicrobial resistance genes | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aminoglycoside: streptomycin | 172 | 49 | 28.49% | |||
| 30 | 1 | 3.33% | ||||
| 1 | 3.33% | |||||
| 615 | 5 | 0.81% | ||||
| 1 | 0.16% | |||||
| Chloramphenicol | 40 | 16 | 40.00% | |||
| 120 | 8 | 6.67% | ||||
| β-lactams: carbapenem | 140 | 35 | 25.00% | |||
| 31 | 5 | 16.13% | ||||
| Sulfometaxazole/trimetoprim | 87 | 69 | 79.31% | |||
| Tetracycline | 125 | 88 | 70.40% | |||
| Metronidazole | 206 | 12 | 5.83% |