High prevalence of multidrug resistance and random distribution of mobile genetic elements among uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) of the four major phylogenetic groups

Current Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 158-162

  Rijavec, Matija ^a   Erjavec, Marjanca Starčič ^a   Avguštin, Jerneja Ambrožič ^a   Reissbrodt, Rolf ^b   Fruth, Angelika ^b   Križan Hergouth, Veronika ^a   Žgur Bertok, Darja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTIAM; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; HELICASE; KANAMYCIN; MEZLOCILLIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REPLICON; SEROPREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; SLOVENIA; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; INTEGRONS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; SEROTYPING; SLOVENIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33746757645     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-0501-4     Document Type: Article

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