High-frequency conjugative transfer of antibiotic resistance genes to Yersinia pestis in the flea midgut

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 349-354

  Hinnebusch, B Joseph ^a   Rosso, Marie Laure ^b   Schwan, Tom G ^a   Carniel, Elisabeth ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISEASE CARRIER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTESTINE FLORA; MADAGASCAR; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLEAS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; PLAGUE; PLASMIDS; STREPTOMYCIN; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0036428696     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03159.x     Document Type: Article

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