Prevalence of streptomycin-resistance genes in bacterial populations in European habitats

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 277-288

  Van Overbeek, Leo S ^a   Wellington, Elisabeth M H ^b   Egan, Sharon ^b   Smalla, Kornelia ^c   Heuer, Holger ^d   Collard, Jean Marc ^e   Guillaume, Gillian ^e   Karagouni, Amalia D ^f   Nikolakopoulou, Theodora L ^f   Van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology of Brussels   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exogenous plasmid isolation; Natural habitat; Polymerase chain reaction; Streptomycin resistance

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER; STREPTOMYCIN;

BACTERIUM;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; EUROPE; HYBRIDIZATION; MANURE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORMICIDAE;

EID: 18744366054     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(02)00345-8     Document Type: Article

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