TABLE 3.
Occurrence of putative antimicrobial resistance genesa
| Species (n) | % (no.) of strains with indicated antimicrobial resistance gene |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chloramphenicol, putative cat | Clindamycin, putative lsa(B) | Streptomycin, putative aadK | Tetracycline, putative tet(L) | Erythromycin, ermD | |
| B. megaterium (29) | 3 (1) | 7 (2) | |||
| B. velezensis (26) | 58 (15) | 85 (22) | |||
| B. amyloliquefaciens (6) | 100 (6) | 86 (5) | |||
| B. paralicheniformis (28) | 100 (28) | ||||
| B. licheniformis (35) | 23 (8) | ||||
a
aadK, aminoglycoside 6-adenylyltransferase gene; tet(L), tetracycline efflux gene; lsa(B), ABC transporter gene; ermD, rRNA methylase gene; cat, chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene.