Tn916-like genetic elements: A diverse group of modular mobile elements conferring antibiotic resistance

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 856-871

  Roberts, Adam P ^a   Mullany, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Clostridium difficile; Enterococcus; Staphylococcus aureus; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Tn916

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MACROLIDE; RECOMBINASE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONJUGATION; DIARRHEA; DONOR; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EXCISION; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTRON; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RECIPIENT; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON TN916;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 79960946351     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00283.x     Document Type: Review

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