ESBL-producing isolates were subjected to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of bla OXA , bla PER-1 bla VEB-1 , and bla GES-1 genes using the specific primers listed in Table 1 [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] . Total deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was extracted from bacterial isolates using an extraction kit (Bioneer, Daejeon, Korea). PCR amplification was performed in a
thermocycler (Applied Biosystems, Carlsbad, CA, USA) as follows: 96 o C for 5 min; 35 cycles of 1 min at 96 o C, 1 min at a specific temperature for each primer, and 1 min at 72 o C; and a final extension step of 10 min at 72 o C. Amplification reactions were prepared in a total volume of 25μl including 12.5μl
Taq DNA polymerase 2× Master Mix with 1.5mM
MgCl 2 (Ampliqon, Odense, Denmark), 0.5μM forward primer, 0.5μM reverse primer, 9μl nuclease free water, and 2.5μl DNA template (50pg concentration). PCR products were electrophoresed on a 1% agarose gel at 100V, stained with ethidium bromide solution, and finally visualized with a
gel documentation system (UviTec, Cambridge, UK). Purified PCR products were sequenced by the Macrogen Company (Seoul, Korea), and sequence alignment and analysis were performed online using the basic local alignment search tool (BLAST) program of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi).
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