The field of antibiotic drug discovery and the monitoring of new antibiotic resistance elements
have yet to fully exploit the power of the genome revolution. Despite the fact that the first …

This study describes the characterization of the recently describedSalmonella genomic
island 1 (SGI1) (DA Boyd, GA Peters, L.-K. Ng, and MR Mulvey, FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 189:285–…

A major outbreak involving an Escherichia coli strain that was resistant to expanded-spectrum
cephalosporins occurred in Toronto and surrounding regions in 2000 to 2002. We report …

Objectives Recently, a CTX-M-15 extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing
Escherichia coli O25b-ST131 clone, belonging to the B2 phylogenetic group and with a high …

The emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms is a major public health concern, particularly
in hospitals and other health care settings. 1, 2 Antibiotic-resistant organisms appear to be …

Multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium phage type DT104, resistant
to ampicillin, chloramphenicol/florfenicol, streptomycin, sulfonamides, and tetracycline, has …

Between 1 September 2005 and 30 June 2006, 19 medical centers collected 4,180 isolates
recovered from clinical specimens from patients in intensive care units (ICUs) in Canada. …

This report describes a study carried out to gain baseline information on the molecular
characteristics of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli and …

Fusion plasmids with lacZ under the control of the katE (encoding catalase or hydroperoxidase
HPII) and katF (encoding a sigma factor-like protein required for katE expression) …

The Carba NP test was evaluated against a panel of 244 carbapenemase- and non-carbapenemase-producing
Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates. We …