PCR detection of oxytetracycline resistance genes otr(A) and otr(B) in tetracycline-resistant streptomycete isolates from diverse habitats

Current Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 211-216

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; otr(A); otr(B); PCR detection; Streptomycetes; Tetracycline resistance genes

Indexed keywords

OXYTETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MANURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOSPHERE; SCREENING TEST; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECIES HABITAT; STREPTOMYCETACEAE; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; OXYTETRACYCLINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

STREPTOMYCES RIMOSUS; STREPTOMYCINEAE;

EID: 26444457410     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-004-4430-4     Document Type: Article

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