The tetracycline resistance gene tet39 is present in both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria from a polluted river, Southwestern Nigeria

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-172

  Adelowo, O O ^a   Fagade, O E ^b  

^a LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Multiple antibiotic resistant bacteria; PCR; Polluted river; tet39; Tetracycline

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS;

BACTERIAL SPECIES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTEGRASE; MULTIPLE-ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA; PCR; POLLUTED RIVERS; RESISTANCE GENES; SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA; TET39; TETRACYCLINE;

GENES;

CARBENICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; INTEGRASE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENES; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS;

BACTERIUM; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST RANGE; ISOLATED POPULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER POLLUTION;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TET39 GENE; TRANSPOSON; WATER POLLUTION;

AFRICA; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 58449105639     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2008.02523.x     Document Type: Article

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