Selection of fecal enterococci exhibiting tcrB-mediated copper resistance in pigs fed diets supplemented with copper

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5597-5603

  Amachawadi, R G ^a   Shelton, N W ^a   Shi, X ^a   Vinasco, J ^a   Dritz, S S ^a   Tokach, M D ^a   Nelssen, J L ^a   Scott, H M ^a   Nagaraja, T G ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATION ASSAY; COPPER SULFATE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECAL ENTEROCOCCI; FECAL SAMPLES; GENOMIC DNA; GROWTH PROMOTION; LONGITUDINAL FIELD STUDY; RESTRICTION DIGESTION;

BACILLI; GENES; NUTRITION;

COPPER;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPPER; COPPER SULFATE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LIGASE; TCRB PROTEIN, ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; VANA LIGASE, BACTERIA;

AGAR; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; COPPER COMPOUND; DIET; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HYBRIDIZATION; PIG; SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SWINE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; COPPER; COPPER SULFATE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; ERYTHROMYCIN; FECES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SWINE;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; SUIDAE;

EID: 80052623698     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00364-11     Document Type: Article

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