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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 1999, p. 1523-1524, Vol. 43, No. 6
0066-4804/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Nomenclature for New Tetracycline Resistance Determinants

Stuart B. Levy,1,* Laura M. McMurry,1,* Teresa M. Barbosa,1 Vickers Burdett,2 Patrice Courvalin,3 Wolfgang Hillen,4 Marilyn C. Roberts,5 Julian I. Rood,6 and Diane E. Taylor7

Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 021111; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 277102; Unité des Agents Antibactériens, Institut Pasteur, Paris Cedex 15, France3; Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany4; Department of Pathobiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 981955; Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia6; and Departments of Biological Sciences and of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada7

Received 24 February 1999/Accepted 24 March 1999

Letters of the English alphabet have heretofore been used to name tetracycline resistance determinants. Since all 26 letters have now been used, a nomenclature employing numerals is recommended for future determinants, and one laboratory has offered to coordinate the assignment of numerals.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address for Stuart B. Levy: Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111. Phone: (617) 636-6764. Fax: (617) 636-0458. E-mail: slevy{at}opal.tufts.edu. E-mail for Laura M. McMurry: lmcmur01{at}emerald.tufts.edu.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 1999, p. 1523-1524, Vol. 43, No. 6
0066-4804/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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