A second large plasmid encodes conjugative transfer and antimicrobial resistance in O119:H2 and some typical O111 enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 6074-6079

  Nwaneshiudu, Adaobi I ^a,c   Mucci, Tania ^a,d   Pickard, Derek J ^b   Okeke, Iruka N ^a  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34547820798     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00349-07     Document Type: Article

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