Erythromycin resistance-conferring plasmid pRSB105, isolated from a sewage treatment plant, harbors a new macrolide resistance determinant, an integron-containing Tn402-like element, and a large region of unknown function

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1952-1960

  Schluter A ^a   Szczepanowski, R ^a   Kurz, N ^a   Schneiker, S ^a   Krahn, I ^a   Puhler A ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENE ENCODING; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

FUNCTIONAL RESTRICTION; MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS; MOSAIC PLASMID; MULTIRESISTANCE PLASMID; NONRESISTANCE MODULES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLASMID; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE REPLICATION; GENOMICS; HOST RANGE; INTEGRON; MEL GENE; MHP GENE; MOBBA GENE; MOBCDE GENE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPLICON; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRONS; MACROLIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLASMIDS; SEWAGE; TRIMETHOPRIM RESISTANCE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33947422497     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02159-06     Document Type: Article

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