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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 2006, p. 3200-3202, Vol. 50, No. 9
0066-4804/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00293-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Genetic Environment of Quinolone Resistance Gene qnrB2 in a Complex sul1-Type Integron in the Newly Described Salmonella enterica Serovar Keurmassar

Fabien Garnier,1 Nabil Raked,1 Amy Gassama,1,2 François Denis,1 and Marie-Cécile Ploy1*

Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène, EA3175, CHU Dupuytren, Limoges, France,1 Laboratoire de Bactériologie expérimentale, Institut Pasteur, BP 220, Dakar, Sénégal2

Received 8 March 2006/ Returned for modification 12 June 2006/ Accepted 25 June 2006

A qnrB2 determinant was described for a new complex sul1-type integron from Salmonella enterica serovar Keurmassar. The genetic structure contained two class 1 integrons surrounding two common regions (CRs) separated by a partial 3' conserved segment. The qnrB2 gene is adjacent to the first CR.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène, CHU Dupuytren, 2, avenue Martin Luther King, 87042 Limoges Cedex, France. Phone: (33) (5) 55 05 61 66. Fax: (33) (5) 55 05 67 22. E-mail: marie-cecile.ploy{at}unilim.fr.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 2006, p. 3200-3202, Vol. 50, No. 9
0066-4804/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00293-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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