Human intestinal bacteria as reservoirs for antibiotic resistance genes

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 412-416

  Salyers, Abigail A ^a   Gupta, Anamika ^a   Wang, Yanping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACTINOMYCES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLON; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA; BACTEROIDES; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INTESTINES;

ACTINOMYCES; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 4444382949     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2004.07.004     Document Type: Review

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