Antibiotic resistance gene profiling of faecal and oral anaerobes collected during an antibiotic challenge trial.

Abstract Here we describe a study examining the antibiotic resistance gene carriage in anaerobes collected during a clinical study. The results demonstrated that genes normally associated with anaerobes were most prevalent such as tet Q, cep A and cbl A although several genes associated with Enterobacteriaceae including sul 2, bla SHV and str B were also detected.