The chloramphenicol resistance gene cmlA is disseminated on transferable plasmids that confer multiple-drug resistance in swine Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 285-291

  Bischoff, Kenneth M ^a,c   White, David G ^b   Hume, Michael E ^a   Poole, Toni L ^a   Nisbet, David J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Conjugation; Integrons

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; KANAMYCIN; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CMLA; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTEGRON; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 12844275140     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.12.017     Document Type: Article

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