Mobilizable IncQ-related plasmid carrying a new quinolone resistance gene, qnrS2, isolated from the bacterial community of a wastewater treatment plant

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3075-3080

  Bönemann, Gabriele ^a   Stiens, Michael ^a   Pühler, Alfred ^a   Schlüter, Andreas ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); LEVOFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PENTAPEPTIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE; SPARFLOXACIN;

ACRA GENE; ACRB GENE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUROPE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GERMANY; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; QNRS2 GENE; REPA GENE; REPC GENE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSPOSON; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; QUINOLONES; SEWAGE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 33748683807     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00378-06     Document Type: Article

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