Phenotypic and molecular characterization of conjugative antibiotic resistance plasmids isolated from bacterial communities of activated sludge

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 471-482

  Droge M ^a   Puhler A ^a   Selbitschka, W ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exogenous plasmid isolation; Green fluorescent protein; Horizontal gene transfer; Inc group; Pseudomonas sp.

Indexed keywords

3 CHLOROBENZOIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REPLICON;

DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

EID: 0033794814     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380051191     Document Type: Article

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