Genotypic diversity, antibiotic resistance and bacteriocin production of enterococci isolated from rhizospheres
- Klibi, N. 3
- Ben Slimen, N. 3
- Fhoula, I. 3
- López, M. 1
- Ben Slama, K. 3
- Daffonchio, D. 2
- Boudabous, A. 3
- Torres, C. 1
- Ouzari, H. 3
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Universidad de La Rioja
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University of Milan
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Université de Tunis El Manar
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ISSN: 1342-6311
Año de publicación: 2012
Volumen: 27
Número: 4
Páginas: 533-537
Tipo: Artículo
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Resumen
This study aimed to identify and to characterize rhizospheric-derived enterococci. The results showed the prevalence of Enterococcus faecium species (97%) vs. Enterococcus durans (3%). Susceptibility testing for antibiotics showed a low percentage of resistance to erythromycin (3.2%) and tetracycline (11.2%), and intermediate resistance to vancomycin (6.5%). Nevertheless, a high proportion of bacteriocin production was recorded. Furthermore, PCR detection of antibiotic resistance and bacteriocin production-encoding genes was investigated. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing (PFGE) showed a great variability of enterococci in the rhizosphere. Moreover, mutilocus-sequence-typing analysis (MLST) revealed the identification of three new sequence types (STs), which were registered as ST613, ST614 and ST615.