TY - JOUR AU - Carattoli, Alessandra AU - Villa, Laura AU - Pezzella, Cristina AU - Bordi, Eugenio AU - Visca, Paolo T1 - Expanding Drug Resistance through Integron Acquisition by IncFI Plasmids of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2001 VL - 7 IS - 3 SP - 444 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We conducted a 30-year retrospective analysis of IncFI plasmids from Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium. These plasmids have been associated with the emergence of epidemic clones of multidrug-resistant Salmonella. Molecular and genetic evidence indicates that IncFI plasmids are evolving through sequential acquisition of integrons carrying different arrays of antibiotic-resistance genes. KW - Salmonella KW - antibiotic resistance KW - plasmid KW - integron KW - Italy DO - 10.3201/eid0703.017314 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/3/01-7314_article ER - End of Reference