Construction and characterization of Enterococcus faecalis CG110/gfp/pRE25*, a tool for monitoring horizontal gene transfer in complex microbial ecosystems

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 313, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-119

  Haug, Martina C ^a   Tanner, Sabine A ^a   Lacroix, Christophe ^a   Meile, Leo ^a   Stevens, Marc J A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Horizontal gene transfer; PRE25

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NOVOBIOCIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC STABILITY; GFP GENE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LETTER; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLASMID PRE25; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; LISTERIA; PLASMIDS; STAINING AND LABELING;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 78649495217     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02131.x     Document Type: Letter

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