Cristina Pezzella
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
17 Papers
213 Citations
Cristina Pezzella is an academic researcher from Istituto Superiore di Sanità. The author has contributed to research in topics: Plasmid & Integron. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 17 publications.
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Papers
Tetracycline and Streptomycin Resistance Genes, Transposons, and Plasmids in Salmonella enterica Isolates from Animals in Italy
TL;DR: Fifty-eight multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica strains of 20 serotypes, isolated from animal sources in Italy, were analyzed for tet(A) and strA-strB, conferring tetracycline and streptomycin resistance, respectively, and two prevalent repN and repI1 resistance plasmids were identified.
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Class 1 Integron-Borne Multiple-Antibiotic Resistance Carried by IncFI and IncL/M Plasmids in Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium
Fabio Tosini,Paolo Visca,Ida Luzzi,Anna Maria Dionisi,Cristina Pezzella,Andrea Petrucca,Alessandra Carattoli +6 more
TL;DR: The recent appearance and the coexistence of multiple integrons on two conjugative plasmids in the same Salmonella isolate are examples of how mobile gene cassettes may contribute to the acquisition and dissemination of antibiotic resistance.
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Antibiotic Resistance Conferred by a Conjugative Plasmid and a Class I Integron in Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Strains Isolated in Albania and Italy
Vincenzo Falbo,Alessandra Carattoli,Fabio Tosini,Cristina Pezzella,Anna Maria Dionisi,Ida Luzzi +5 more
TL;DR: Multidrug-resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains isolated during the 1994 outbreak of cholera in Albania and Italy were characterized for the molecular basis of antibiotic resistance.
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Enteropathogens associated with childhood diarrhea in Italy. The Italian Study Group on Gastrointestinal Infections
Alfredo Caprioli,Cristina Pezzella,Roberto Morelli,Anna Giammanco,Serenella Arista,Daniele Crotti,Massimo Facchini,Paolo Guglielmetti,Claudio Piersimoni,Ida Luzzi +9 more
TL;DR: The clinical presentation of children was not sufficiently characteristic to permit presumptive diagnosis of a specific pathogen, but the presence of blood and/or leukocytes in stools had a high positive predictive value for Salmonella or Campylobacter infection.
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Multiple-Antibiotic Resistance Mediated by Structurally Related IncL/M Plasmids Carrying an Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Gene and a Class 1 Integron
TL;DR: A conjugative IncL/M plasmid (pSEM) conferring resistance to gentamicin, amikacin, kanamycin, sulfonamides, and expanded-spectrum cephalosporins was found in pathogenic strains of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium.
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