Drug resistance genes encoded in integrons and in extra-integrons: Their distribution and lateral transfer among pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae including enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovars typhimurium and infantis

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 123-126

  Hamada, Kokichi ^a   Oshima, Kahori ^a   Tsuji, Hidetaka ^a  

^a Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; INTEGRON; JAPAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEROTYPE;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; INTEGRONS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0141853848     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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