Isolation of bacteria from remote high altitude Andean Lakes able to grow in the presence of antibiotics

Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-76

  Dib, Julián R ^a   Weiss, Annika ^b   Neumann, Anna ^b   Ordoñez, Omar ^a   Estévez, María C ^a   Farías, Maria E ^a  

^a PLANTA PILOTO DE PROCESOS INDUSTRIALES MICROBIOLÓGICOS PROIMI CONICET   (Argentina)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Andean lakes microbiology; Antibiotics resistance in environmental bacteria; Extreme environments; Water birds

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLISTIN; DNA 16S; ERYTHROMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FRESH WATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ALTITUDE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES MICROFLORA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER SAMPLING; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ALTITUDE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FRESH WATER;

EID: 62749091030     PISSN: 1574891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157489109787236300     Document Type: Article

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