Zoo animals as reservoirs of gram-negative bacteria harboring integrons and antimicrobial resistance genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6686-6690

  Ahmed, Ashraf M ^a,c   Motoi, Yusuke ^a   Sato, Maiko ^a   Maruyama, Akito ^a   Watanabe, Hitoshi ^b   Fukumoto, Yukio ^b   Shimamoto, Tadashi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park   (Japan)

^c Kafrelsheikh University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DNA SEQUENCES; ENZYMES; GENE ENCODING; JAPAN;

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE GENES; LACTAMASE-ENCODING GENES; PHENOTYPES;

BACTERIA;

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE AMPC; CEFALOTIN; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BIRD; DNA FINGERPRINTING; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPTILE; RESERVOIR; ZOO;

AAC(6') IB CR GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIRD; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTEGRON; JAPAN; MAMMAL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QNR GENE; REPTILE; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIROSHIMA [CHUGOKU]; HONSHU; JAPAN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 35448935006     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01054-07     Document Type: Article

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