Volume 15, Number 1—January 2009
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Clonal Multidrug-Resistant Corynebacterium striatum Strains, Italy
Table 1
Primer conditions, PCR products, and related sequences confirmed by BLAST analysis of 36 strains of multidrug-resistant Corynebacterium striatum, Italy, 2005–2007*
Primer | Related resistance | Sequence (5′ → 3′) | Temperature, °C | Size, bp | BLAST from–to, bp |
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ermX up ermX down | Erythromycin and clindamycin | AACCATGATTGTGTTTCTGAACG ACCAGGAAGCGGTGCCCT | 57 | 566 | 2,285–2,850 |
tetA up tetB down | Tetracycline, oxytetracycline, and oxacillin | TTAGCGTTCGGCGACCTGG AACTGGGTGCCTTCAGGGTC | 58 | 1,829 | 5,496–7,324 |
cmxB up cmxA down | Cloramphenicol (2 identical subunits) | AGTCGGTATGGTCGTCGGC GCTCCGATATTCAATGCTGCG | 57 | 879 | 16,031–16,909 36,078–36,956 |
aphA1 up aphA1 down | Aminoglycoside | GGCAAGATCCTGGTATCGGTCT AGACTAAACTGGCTGACGGCAT | 57 | 480 | 41,859–42,338 |
repB up repB down | Replicase | CGATCTGGAATTTGTCTGCCGT CTGGTTGATAGACCCCGTGT | 57 | 875 | 32,523–33,397 |
*BLAST (http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi) analysis of each gene with pTP10 sequence (GenBank accession no. AF024666) showed nucleotide identities >99%.