qnr Gene Nomenclature

Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA; INSERM U914, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Faculté de Médicine Paris-Sud, Université Paris XI, K.-Bicêtre, France; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Service of Microbiology, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain; Department of Microbiology, University of Seville-University Hospital Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain; Institute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

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	Abstract

Since the plasmid-borne quinolone resistance gene qnr was reported in 1998 (8), many additional qnr alleles have been discovered on plasmids or the bacterial chromosome (reviewed in (9, 13)). ...