Class 1 integrons and tetracycline resistance genes in Alcaligenes, Arthrobacter, and Pseudomonas spp. isolated from pigsties and manured soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 7941-7947

  Agersø, Yvonne ^a,c   Sandvang, Dorthe ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c Danish Research Institute of Food Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG PRODUCTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIOLOGY; SOILS;

ALCALIGENES; ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS; ARTHROBACTER; CLASS 1 INTEGRONS;

GENES;

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; FUSIDIC ACID; NALIDIXIC ACID; RNA 16S; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PIG; RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT;

ALCALIGENES; ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DENMARK; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTEGRON; MANURE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SOIL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWINE; TETA GENE; TETB GENE; TETC GENE;

ALCALIGENES; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHROBACTER; DNA PRIMERS; INTEGRONS; MANURE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SWINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

ALCALIGENES; ANIMALIA; ARTHROBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 29144476800     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.7941-7947.2005     Document Type: Article

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