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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, July 2005, p. 3062-3065, Vol. 49, No. 7
0066-4804/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.49.7.3062-3065.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Integron-Associated Antibiotic Resistance and Phylogenetic Grouping of Escherichia coli Isolates from Healthy Subjects Free of Recent Antibiotic Exposure

David Skurnik,1 Arnaud Le Menac'h,2 David Zurakowski,3 Didier Mazel,4 Patrice Courvalin,5 Erick Denamur,6 Antoine Andremont,1 and Raymond Ruimy1*

Université Paris 7 and Groupe Hospitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France,1 INSERM U444, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, Paris, France,2 Department of Biostatistics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,3 Unité Plasticité du Génome Bactérien, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France,4 Unité des Agents Antibactériens, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France,5 INSERM U722 and Université Paris 7, Faculté de Médecine Xavier-Bichat, Paris, France6

Received 4 January 2005/ Returned for modification 28 January 2005/ Accepted 25 March 2005

The study of integrons in 181 Escherichia coli isolates from three groups of healthy subjects who lived in communities and had not taken antibiotics for at least 1 month showed that the presence of integrons was associated with antibiotic resistance and phylogenetic grouping of the bacterial host and dependent on a subject's living environment.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Groupe Hospitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, 46, Rue Henri-Huchard, 75018 Paris, France. Phone: 33 1 40 25 85 05. Fax: 33 1 40 25 85 81. E-mail: raymond.ruimy{at}bch.aphp.fr.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, July 2005, p. 3062-3065, Vol. 49, No. 7
0066-4804/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.49.7.3062-3065.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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