Gene flow, mobile genetic elements and the recruitment of antibiotic resistance genes into Gram-negative pathogens

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 790-819

  Stokes, Hatch W ^a   Gillings, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Integron; Lateral Gene Transfer; Mobile genetic elements; Nosocomial infection; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE SIGNAL PEPTIDASE; QAC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSFER; GENE FLOW; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST; HUMAN; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LANGAT VIRUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 79960951300     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00273.x     Document Type: Review

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