A novel gene cassette, aacA43, in a plasmid-borne class 1 integron

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2979-2982

  Partridge, Sally R ^a   Thomas, Lee C ^a,b   Ginn, Andrew N ^a   Wiklendt, Agnieszka M ^a,b   Kyme, Pierre ^a,c   Iredell, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; APRAMYCIN; AZTREONAM; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NETILMICIN; SISOMICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLASS 1 INTEGRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; HEALTH SURVEY; INTEGRON; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79956336458     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01582-10     Document Type: Article

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