TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yu, Ting 
AU  - Jiang, Han 
AU  - Cheng, Hui 
AU  - Chen, Yingwen 
AU  - Xuan, Yiru 
AU  - Lv, Xiang 
AU  - Chen, Yihao 
AU  - Gu, Jingyi 
AU  - Fang, Jiehong 
AU  - Zhu, Cheng 
PY  - 2020
TI  - Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern and Characteristics of Integrons in Escherichia Coli Strains Isolated from Aquatic Retail Products in Zhejiang Province, China
JF  - American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
DO  - 10.3844/ajbbsp.2020.568.578
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajbbsp.2020.568.578
AB  - The aquatic retail products are among the potential reservoirs of antimicrobial resistant microorganisms. The main objective of this study was to analyze the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and integrons and their associated Gene Cassettes (GCs) of Escherichia coli isolates from aquatic retail products. E. coli isolates were obtained from 450 aquatic retail products samples at different markets in Zhejiang Province, China. Antimicrobial resistance among the selected isolates was studied against 19 different antibiotics by disk diffusion method and all isolates were detected for the presence of integrase genes and Gene Cassettes (GCs) using PCR assays. The results showed that a total of 181 (40.22%) E. coli were obtained and the resistance pattern in the isolates was highly variable and significant differences were observed between seven antibiotics (p