Antibiotic resistance genes in the vaginal microbiota of primates not normally exposed to antibiotics

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 309-315

  Jeters, Robert T ^a   Rivera, Angel J ^a   Boucek, Lisa M ^a   Stumpf, Rebecca M ^a   Leigh, Steve R ^a   Salyers, Abigail A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PROTEIN ERMB; PROTEIN ERMF; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BABOON; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDETES; CERCOCEBUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGINA FLORA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CERCOCEBUS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; PAPIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA; BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; PAPIO; PRIMATES;

EID: 70350468852     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2009.0052     Document Type: Article

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