In vitro conjugal transfer of tetracycline resistance from Lactobacillus isolates to other Gram-positive bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 125-130

  Gevers, Dirk ^a,b   Huys, Geert ^a   Swings, Jean ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fermented dry sausage; Lactobacillus alimentarius; Lactobacillus plantarum; Lactobacillus sakei subsp. sakei

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; BIOFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ALIMENTARIUS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOBACILLUS SAKEI; LACTOBACILLUS SAKEI SUBSP. SAKEI; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS SUBSP. LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0142043308     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00505-6     Document Type: Article

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