The gut as reservoir of antibiotic resistance: Microbial diversity of tetracycline resistance in mother and infant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  de Vries, Lisbeth E ^a,b   Vallès, Yvonne ^c   Agersø, Yvonne ^b   Vaishampayan, Parag A ^d,f   García Montaner, Andrea ^c   Kuehl, Jennifer V ^d,g   Christensen, Henrik ^a   Barlow, Miriam ^e   Francino, M Pilar ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTEROIDETES; DNA PURIFICATION; ERMT GENE; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TETL GENE; TETM GENE; TETO GENE; TETW GENE; TETX GENE; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES;

GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 79959677612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021644     Document Type: Article

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