Prevalence of cadmium resistance in Staphylococcus sciuri isolated from the Gray Treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis (Anura: Hylidae)

Abstract

We investigated the prevalence of cadmium resistance in 126different isolates of S. sciuri from H. chrysoscelis. Additional experiments were designed to determine if CadA, CadB, or CadD caused the resistance.

Keywords

• Anura
• Hylidae
• Hyla chrysoscelis
• Staphylococcus sciuri
• cadmium resistance
• CAdA
• CadB