Distribution of the blaTEM gene and blaTEM-containing transposons in commensal Escherichia coli

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 745-751

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ampicillin resistance; Tn1; Tn2; Tn3

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAMASE;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79952809893     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq529     Document Type: Article

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