Characterization of metal and antibiotic resistance in a bacterial population isolated from a Copper mining industry

International Journal of Integrative Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 57-61

  Jain, Pankaj Kumar ^a   Ramachandran, S ^a   Shukla, Vibhava ^a   Bhakuni, Deepti ^a   Verma, Sanjay K ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Copper mining; Metal pollution; Metal resistance; Soil bacteria

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; BACITRACIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COPPER; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; MEROPENEM; METAL; METRONIDAZOLE; OXACILLIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PLASMID DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC SCREENING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MINING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

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

EID: 67649515643     PISSN: 09738363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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