Restored fitness leads to long-term persistence of resistant Bacteroides strains in the human intestine

Anaerobe

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 157-160

  Löfmark, Sonja ^a   Jernberg, Cecilia ^b   Billström, Hanna ^a   Andersson, Dan I ^c   Edlund, Charlotta ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacteroides fragilis; Competition; Fitness; Persistence

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN METHYLASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAMICRON; CLONE; COMPETITION; ERM GENE; FECES; FITNESS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES; CLINDAMYCIN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON;

EID: 44949216498     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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