Small qnrB-harbouring ColE-like plasmids widespread in commensal enterobacteria from a remote Amazonas population not exposed to antibiotics

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1176-1178

  Pallecchi, Lucia ^a   Riccobono, Eleonora ^a   Mantella, Antonia ^b   Fernandez, Connie ^c   Bartalesi, Filippo ^d   Rodriguez, Hugo ^c   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^e   Bartoloni, Alessandro ^b,d   Rossolini, Gian Maria ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Hospital Apoyo Yurimaguas   (Peru)

^d CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Enterobacteriaceae; Faecal metagenomes; Peru

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMMENSAL; COMMENSAL ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA FERGUSONII; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; PLASMIDS; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954614858     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr026     Document Type: Letter

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