Characterization of small ColE-like plasmids mediating widespread dissemination of the qnrB19 gene in commensal enterobacteria

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 678-682

  Pallecchi, Lucia ^a   Riccobono, Eleonora ^a   Sennati, Samanta ^a   Mantella, Antonia ^b   Bartalesi, Filippo ^b   Trigoso, Christian ^c   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^d   Bartoloni, Alessandro ^b   Rossolini, Gian Maria ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d Instituto Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^e INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; ISECP1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOLIVIA; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPLICATION; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERU; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNRB19 GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; URBAN AREA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUINOLONES;

EID: 75749107433     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01160-09     Document Type: Article

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