Horizontal transfer of tet(M) and erm(B) resistance plasmids from food strains of Lactobacillus plantarum to Enterococcus faecalis JH2-2 in the gastrointestinal tract of gnotobiotic rats

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 158-166

  Jacobsen, Louise ^a   Wilcks, Andrea ^a   Hammer, Karin ^a   Huys, Geert ^b   Gevers, Dirk ^b,c   Andersen, Sigrid Rita ^a,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d University College Oresund   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Gastrointestinal tract; Gnotobiotic rats; Horizontal gene transfer; Lactobacillus plantarum

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BACTERIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECAL COLIFORM; FERMENTATION; PLASMID; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERMENTED PRODUCT; GENE ERM; GENE TET; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MALE; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GERM-FREE LIFE; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; RATS; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM;

EID: 33845678684     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00212.x     Document Type: Article

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