Multiple antibiotic resistance gene recruitment onto the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli virulence plasmid

FASEB Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1160-1166

  Venturini, Carola ^a   Beatson, Scott A ^b   Djordjevic, Steven P ^c,d   Walker, Mark J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

EHEC; Enterohemolysin; Tn21

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CATALASE; KANAMYCIN; LIPID A; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MYRISTOYLTRANSFERASE; NEOMYCIN; PEROXIDASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFATHIAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ENTEROHEMOLYSIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HEMOLYSIN; MSBB PROTEIN, E COLI; TOXB PROTEIN, E COLI;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PO26 CRL GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAC GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; CATALASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC LOCI; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; OPERON; PLASMIDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77951651754     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.09-144972     Document Type: Article

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