Spreading antibiotic resistance through spread manure: Characteristics of a novel plasmid type with low %G+C content

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 937-949

  Heuer, Holger ^a   Kopmann, Christoph ^a   Binh, Chu T T ^a   Top, Eva M ^b   Smalla, Kornelia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MANURE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SYNTENY;

ACINETOBACTER; BASE COMPOSITION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ORDER; GENETIC VARIATION; MANURE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 63849172530     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01819.x     Document Type: Article

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