@article{oai:showa.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004159, author = {YAMOCHI, Tadanori and YOSHIDA, Katsuhiko and OHIRA, Yasuyuki and OTA, Hirotaka and YAMOCHI, Toshiko and TAKIMOTO, Masafumi and TOKIMATSU, Issei}, issue = {4}, journal = {The Showa University journal of medical sciences}, month = {2022-12, 2023-04-07}, note = {AmpC is a class C Ambler β-lactamase that confers resistance to cephamycins. Globally reported AmpC-producing Enterobacterales are clinically important due to their therapeutic restrictions and epidemiology. Between April 2021 and May 2021, an outbreak of AmpC beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli occurred at Showa University Hospital. Because of this outbreak, plasmid typing, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-polymerase chain reaction (ERIC-PCR) analysis, conjugation experiments, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) were performed to study the molecular epidemiological characteristics of these E. coli strains. ERIC-PCR and conjugation experiments detected IncFrepB+, IncFIA+, and IncFIB+ multiple-replicon conjugative plasmids carrying the AmpC gene (blaDHA-1). Five of eleven isolates showed the same PFGE banding pattern in the XbaI-digested genomic DNA, whereas the remaining six strains displayed minor variants. These data highlight the need for improvements to infection control and surveillance measures to prevent the spread of blaDHA-1-carrying E. coli strains.}, pages = {183--190}, title = {Genotypic characterization Escherichia coli strains from Japan producing AmpC beta-lactamase}, volume = {34}, year = {} }