The 120 592 bp IncF plasmid pRSB107 isolated from a sewage-treatment plant encodes nine different antiobiotic-resistance determinants, two iron-acquisition systems and other putative virulence-associated functions

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1095-1111

  Szczepanowski, R ^a   Braun, S ^a   Riedel, V ^a   Schneiker, S ^a   Krahn, I ^a   Puhler A ^a   Schlüter, Andreas ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYTOSINE; DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; GUANINE; IRON; KANAMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MERCURY; NEOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; SIDEROPHORE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BASE PAIRING; DNA TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INTEGRON; IRON TRANSPORT; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; F FACTOR; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; R FACTORS; REPLICON; SEWAGE; VIRULENCE;

ERWINIA; PECTOBACTERIUM ATROSEPTICUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 17644400113     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27773-0     Document Type: Article

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