Mobilisation and remobilisation of a large archetypal pathogenicity island of uropathogenic Escherichia coli in vitro support the role of conjugation for horizontal transfer of genomic islands

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schneider, György ^a,b,c   Dobrindt, Ulrich ^a,d   Middendorf, Barbara ^a,d   Hochhut, Bianca ^a   Szijártá, Valéria ^b   Emody, Levente ^b,c   Hacker, Jörg ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; NALIDIXIC ACID; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; PATHOGENICITY; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80053174191     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-11-210     Document Type: Article

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