TY - JOUR AU - Nguyen, Minh Chau Phuc AU - Woerther, Paul-Louis AU - Bouvet, Mathilde AU - Andremont, Antoine AU - Leclercq, Roland AU - Canu, Annie T1 - Escherichia coli as Reservoir for Macrolide Resistance Genes T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2009 VL - 15 IS - 10 SP - 1648 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The plasmid-borne mph(A) gene that confers resistance to azithromycin and has recently emerged in Shigella sonnei is present in multidrug- and non–multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from 4 continents. Further spread of mph(A) to Shigella and Salmonella spp. may be expected. KW - Antimicrobial resistance KW - shigellosis KW - azithromycin KW - erythromycin KW - Escherichia coli KW - bacteria KW - dispatch KW - French Guiana KW - Senegal KW - France KW - Vietnam KW - Niger DO - 10.3201/eid1510.090696 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/10/09-0696_article ER - End of Reference