Replicon typing of plasmids carrying CTX-M or CMY β-lactamases circulating among Salmonella and Escherichia coli isolates

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3203-3206

  Hopkins, Katie L ^a   Liebana, Ernesto ^b   Villa, Laura ^c   Batchelor, Miranda ^b   Threlfall, E John ^a   Carattoli, Alessandra ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NETILMICIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPA GENE; REPLICON; SALMONELLA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CEPHALOSPORIN RESISTANCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; SALMONELLA;

EID: 33748697469     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00149-06     Document Type: Article

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