The maintenance in the oral cavity of children of tetracycline-resistant bacteria and the genes encoding such resistance

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 524-531

  Lancaster, Holli ^a   Bedi, Raman ^b   Wilson, Michael ^a   Mullany, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Wellington House ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjugative transposons; tet(32); tet(M); Tn916

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM SABURREUM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRANULICATELLA; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUTH CAVITY; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PARASANGUINIS; TOOTH PLAQUE; TRANSPOSON; VEILLONELLA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOUTH; NEISSERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; VEILLONELLA;

EID: 24644485249     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dki259     Document Type: Article

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