Association of composite IS26-sul3 elements with highly transmissible IncI1 plasmids in extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli clones from humans

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2451-2457

  Curiao, Tânia ^a,c   Cantón, Rafael ^a,b,c   Garcillán Barcia, M Pilar ^d   De La Cruz, Fernando ^d   Baquero, Fernando ^a,b,c   Coque, Teresa M ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTO RAMÓN Y CAJAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIA IRYCIS   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; STREPTOMYCIN; SUL3 PROTEIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79955488195     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01448-10     Document Type: Article

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