We determined antimicrobial susceptibility for 21 representative CC464 isolates with genotypic polymorphisms across the range of detected resistance markers. We used Mueller-Hinton agar with 5% defibrinated horse blood and 20 mg/L β-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide for antimicrobial susceptibility testing using the disk diffusion method for ciprofloxacin (5 μg/disk), gentamicin (10 μg/disk), tetracycline (5 μg/disk), kanamycin (5 μg/disk), amikacin (30 μg/disk), tobramycin (10 μg/diskc), and streptomycin (30 μg/disk) (29 (link),30 ). We determined MIC of ampicillin (AMP) by Etest (Oxoid, http://www.oxoid.com) and interpreted the MICAMP and disk susceptibility results using guidelines from the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and interpreted them as described previously (29 (link)). We used the antimicrobial drug–susceptible isolate ARI3025 as a control. We subcultured the ST5136 isolate ARI4158 on antibiotic-free blood agar plate (ARI4158_20) 22 times to assess the stability of its antimicrobial resistance genes.
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