The absence of intervening sequences in 23S rRNA genes of Campylobacter coli isolates from Turkeys is a unique attribute of a cluster of related strains which also lack resistance to erythromycin

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1208-1214

  Chan, Kamfai ^a   Miller, William G ^b   Mandrell, Robert E ^b   Kathariou, Sophia ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; RNA;

CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; ERYTHROMYCIN RESISTANCE; ERYTHROMYCINS; TRANSCRIBED INTERVENING SEQUENCES (IVS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; NALIDIXIC ACID; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURKEY (BIRD);

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; TURKEY; TURKEYS;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 33847224165     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01995-06     Document Type: Article

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