Potential role of Veillonella spp. as a reservoir of transferable tetracycline resistance in the oral cavity

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2866-2868

  Ready, D ^a   Pratten, J ^a   Roberts, A P ^a   Bedi, R ^b   Mullany, P ^a   Wilson, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUTH CAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STREPTOCOCCUS; TOOTH PLAQUE; TRANSPOSON; VEILLONELLA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOUTH; STREPTOCOCCUS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; VEILLONELLA;

EID: 33746922745     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00217-06     Document Type: Article

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