Complete nucleotide sequence of the conjugative tetracycline resistance plasmid pFBAOT6, a member of a group of IncU plasmids with global ubiquity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 7497-7510

  Rhodes, Glenn ^a   Parkhill, Julian ^b   Bird, Christine ^b   Ambrose, Kerrie ^b   Jones, Matthew C ^b   Huys, Geert ^c   Swings, Jean ^c,d   Pickup, Roger W ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EFFLUENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENES; HOSPITALS; PROTEINS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BROAD-HOST-RANGE (BHR); PLASMIDS; PUTATIVE REPLICATION; STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION;

BACTERIA;

TETRACYCLINE;

BACTERIUM; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETICS; PLASMID;

AEROMONAS PUNCTATA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA TRANSFER; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC RESISTANCE; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; UBIQUITINATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AEROMONAS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS PUNCTATA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 10444275724     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.12.7497-7510.2004     Document Type: Article

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