Insights into the environmental resistance gene pool from the genome sequence of the multidrug-resistant environmental isolate Escherichia coli SMS-3-5

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 6779-6794

  Fricke, W Florian ^a   Wright, Meredith S ^b,e   Lindell, Angela H ^b   Harkins, Derek M ^c   Baker Austin, Craig ^b,f   Ravel, Jacques ^a   Stepanauskas, Ramunas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; MACROLIDE; QUINOLONE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AGRICULTURE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOWL; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENE POOL; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNTENY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 53849112279     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00661-08     Document Type: Article

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