A novel IncQ plasmid type harbouring a class 3 integron from Escherichia coli

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1594-1598

  Poirel, Laurent ^a   Carattoli, Alessandra ^b   Bernabeu, Sandrine ^a   Bruderer, Thomas ^c   Frei, Reno ^c   Nordmann, Patrice ^a  

^a Associated French National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance: Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae   (France)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ESBLs; GES 1; IncQ

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; ERTAPENEM; KANAMYCIN; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RIFAMPICIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SWITZERLAND;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77954751061     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq166     Document Type: Article

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