Mosaic tetracycline resistance genes and their flanking regions in Bifidobacterium thermophilum and Lactobacillus johnsonii

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 248-252

  Van Hoek, Angela H A M ^a,d   Mayrhofer, Sigrid ^b   Domig, Konrad J ^b   Flórez, Ana B ^c   Ammor, Mohammed S ^c,e   Mayo, Baltasar ^c   Aarts, Henk J M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF DAIRY PRODUCTS   (Spain)

^d Agricultural University of Athens ^*  (Netherlands)

^e AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM THERMOPHILUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HYBRID GENE; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 37849011301     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00714-07     Document Type: Article

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