Occurrence and characteristics of class 1 and 2 integrons in pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from patients in southern china

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 230-234

  Xu, Zhenbo ^a,b   Li, N ^a   Shirtliff, Mark E ^b   Alam, M J ^c   Yamasaki, Shinji ^a,d   Shi, Lei ^a,d  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMIPENEM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; GENOTYPE; INTEGRON; INTEGRON CLASS 1; INTEGRON CLASS 2; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 58849092835     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02027-08     Document Type: Article

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