Mechanisms of drug resistance: quinolone resistance

DC Hooper, GA Jacoby - Annals of the New York academy of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Quinolone antimicrobials are synthetic and widely used in clinical medicine. Resistance
emerged with clinical use and became common in some bacterial pathogens. Mechanisms …

Plasmid‐mediated quinolone resistance

GA Jacoby, J Strahilevitz… - Plasmids: Biology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmid‐mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) was late in being discovered. Nalidixic
acid, the first quinolone to be used clinically, was introduced in 1967 for urinary tract …

Plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance: two decades on

JM Rodríguez-Martínez, J Machuca, ME Cano… - Drug Resistance …, 2016 - Elsevier
After two decades of the discovery of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR), three
different mechanisms have been associated to this phenomenon: target protection (Qnr …

CrpP is a novel ciprofloxacin-modifying enzyme encoded by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa pUM505 plasmid

VM Chávez-Jacobo… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The pUM505 plasmid, isolated from a clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate, confers
resistance to ciprofloxacin (CIP) when transferred into the standard P. aeruginosa strain …

Prevalence and fate of carbapenemase genes in a wastewater treatment plant in northern China

F Yang, D Mao, H Zhou, Y Luo - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Carbapenemase-producing strains of bacteria, which were primarily found in the medical
field, have increasingly been found in the environment, thus posing potential risks to public …

Characterization of Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance (PMQR) Genes in Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Pediatric Clinical …

J Silva-Sánchez, E Cruz-Trujillo, H Barrios… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
This work describes the characterization of plasmid-mediated quinolone-resistance (PMQR)
genes from a multicenter study of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae pediatric clinical …

Isolation of carbapenem-resistant NDM-1-positive Providencia rettgeri in Mexico

H Barrios, U Garza-Ramos… - Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Isolation of carbapenem-resistant NDM-1-positive Providencia rettgeri in Mexico was found
as part of the 10 kb Tn3-like element Tn4401, PCR assays with specific primers for Tn4401 …

Prevalence of the crpP gene conferring decreased ciprofloxacin susceptibility in enterobacterial clinical isolates from Mexican hospitals

VM Chávez-Jacobo… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objectives This study investigated the presence of the crpP gene, which encodes an
enzymatic mechanism of antibiotic phosphorylation that decreases ciprofloxacin …

Plasmid analysis of NDM metallo-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales isolated in Vietnam

A Hirabayashi, K Yahara, S Mitsuhashi, S Nakagawa… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) represent a serious threat to public health
due to the lack of treatment and high mortality. The rate of antimicrobial resistance of …

Plasmids and genes contributing to high-level quinolone resistance in Escherichia coli

L Vinué, MRA Sater, IC Herriott, MH Huntley… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction: The importance of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) in
Enterobacterales and its high incidence has been emphasised many times. However, a …