Novel genetic environment of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance gene qnrB2 in Salmonella Bredeney from poultry

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1332-1334

  Fortini, Daniela ^a   García Fernández, Aurora ^a   Veldman, Kees ^b   Mevius, Dik ^b,c   Carattoli, Alessandra ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal reservoirs; Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms; Fluoroquinolones; food animals; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PROTEIN QNRB2; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHICKEN; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POULTRY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POULTRY; POULTRY DISEASES; QUINOLONES; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 76249131632     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkp356     Document Type: Letter

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