Schwarz Stefan, Kehrenberg Corinna, Ojo Kayode K
Institut für Tierzucht, Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft (FAL), 31535 Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2002 Nov;46(11):3621-3. doi: 10.1128/AAC.46.11.3621-3623.2002.
A gene which mediates inducible resistance to macrolides, lincosamides, and streptogramin B antibiotics, designated erm(33), was detected on the Staphylococcus sciuri plasmid pSCFS1. Analysis of the erm(33) reading frame suggested that this gene was the product of a recombination between an erm(C) gene and an erm(A) gene. Such a recombination event is a novel observation for erm genes.