Evidence for extensive resistance gene transfer among Bacteroides spp. and among Bacteroides and other genera in the human colon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 561-568

  Shoemaker, N B ^a   Vlamakis, H ^a   Hayes, K ^a   Salyers, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN ERMB; PROTEIN ERMF; PROTEIN ERMG; PROTEIN TETQ; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTEROIDES; COLON FLORA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; NONHUMAN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; COLON; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 0035142427     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.2.561-568.2001     Document Type: Article

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