Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Enterobacter cloacae Outbreak and Emergence of Quinolone Resistance Gene in Dutch Hospital

Armand Paauw*

, Ad C. Fluit*, Jan Verhoef*, and Maurine A. Leverstein-van Hall*

Author affiliations: *University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Figure 1

Schematic presentation of integrons on pQC compared with previously described integrons (5,9,19,21,22). The black double-pointed arrows indicate the product amplified with an Expand Long Template PCR system (Roche, Woerden, the Netherlands), demonstrating a link between the qnrA and blaCTX-M-9 genes and their respective integrons.

Figure 1. Schematic presentation of integrons on pQC compared with previously described integrons (5,9,19,21,22). The black double-pointed arrows indicate the product amplified with an Expand Long Template PCR system (Roche, Woerden, the Netherlands), demonstrating a link between the qnrA and bla_CTX-M-9 genes and their respective integrons.

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