Selective pressure affects transfer and establishment of a Lactobacillus plantarum resistance plasmid in the gastrointestinal environment

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 845-852

  Feld, Louise ^a   Schjørring, Susanne ^b   Hammer, Karin ^a   Licht, Tine Rask ^a   Danielsen, Morten ^c   Krogfelt, Karen ^b   Wilcks, Andrea ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c CHR HANSEN A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Gastrointestinal tract; Horizontal gene transfer; L. plantarum

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHEESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GNOTOBIOTICS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MALE; MATING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESSURE; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERYTHROMYCIN; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GERM-FREE LIFE; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MALE; MICE; PLASMIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SELECTION (GENETICS); STREPTOMYCIN;

EID: 41149086310     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn033     Document Type: Article

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