Commensal Escherichia coli of healthy humans: A reservoir for antibiotic-resistance determinants

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1331-1339

  Bailey, Jannine K ^a   Pinyon, Jeremy L ^a   Anantham, Sashindran ^a   Hall, Ruth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GENE CASSETTE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTEGRON; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 78049507197     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.022475-0     Document Type: Article

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