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Table 2 Drug resistance mechanisms involved in ophthalmic bacterial infections

From: Antibiotic resistance in ocular bacterial infections: an integrative review of ophthalmic chloramphenicol

Resistance mechanism

Resistance gene

Bacterial sources

Plasmid/Transposon/Chromosome

Chloramphenicol acetyltransferases

cat (I, II, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8, P, S)

Escherichia coli

Tn9

R429 (catI)

pSa (catII)

pNR79:Tn2424 (catB2)

pHSH2 (catB3)

Haemophilus influenzae

pR1234

pMR375 (catII)

Serratia marcescens

R478

Proteus mirabilis

Chromosome

Bacillus subtilis

pTZ12

Staphylococcus aureus

pKH7

pUB112

pC223

pSCS6

pSCS7

pC194

pMC524-MBM

Streptococcus pyogenes

Chromosome (catS)

Klebsiella pneumoniae

pEKP0787-1 (catB4)

pKB42 (catB8)

Enterococcus spp.

pRE25

pRUM

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

pPAM-101 (catB6)

Chromosome (catB7)

Plasmid (catB8)

Neisseria meningitidis

Chromosome (catP)

Morganella morganii

Tn840 (catB5)

Chloramphenicol exporters

cml (A1, A4 A5, A6, A7)

Escherichia coli

R751 (Tn2000) (cmlA5)

R26

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

RPL11 (Tn1403) (cmlA1)

pR1033:Tn1696 (cmlA1)

Plasmid (cmlA6)

Chromosome (cmlA7)

Klebsiella pneumoniae

pILT-3 (cmlA1)

pTK1 (cmlA4)