Evaluation of plasmid content and tetracycline resistance conjugative transfer in enterococcus italicus strains of dairy origin

Current Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 261-266

  Borgo, Francesca ^a   Ricci, Giovanni ^a   Arends, Karsten ^b   Schiwon, Katarzyna ^b   Grohmann, Elisabeth ^b   Fortina, Maria Grazia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PLASMID DNA; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS ITALICUS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TETM GENE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DAIRY PRODUCTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS ITALICUS;

EID: 68849085877     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-009-9428-5     Document Type: Article

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