Multiple-Drug Resistance in D-Tartrate-Positive Salmonella enterica Serovar Paratyphi B Isolates from Poultry Is Mediated by Class 2 Integrons Inserted into the Bacterial Chromosome

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3640-3643

  Miko, Angelika ^a   Pries, Karin ^a   Schroeter, Andreas ^a   Helmuth, Reiner ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TARTARIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; GENE CASSETTE; INTEGRON; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; INTEGRONS; PLASMIDS; POULTRY DISEASES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI B; TARTRATES;

EID: 0242290933     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.11.3640-3643.2003     Document Type: Article

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