Population structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from five Mediterranean countries: Evidence for frequent recombination and epidemic occurrence of CC235

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Maatallah, Makaoui ^a   Cheriaa, Jihane ^a   Backhrouf, Amina ^a   Iversen, Aina ^b   Grundmann, Hajo ^c,d   Do, Thuy ^e   Lanotte, Philippe ^f,g   Mastouri, Maha ^h   Elghmati, Mohamed Salem ⁱ   Rojo, Fernando ^j   Mejdi, Snoussi ^a   Giske, Christian G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^h FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^j CSIC   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; DISK DIFFUSION; EPIDEMIC; EXOS GENE; EXOU GENE; FRANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; ITALY; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SPAIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TUNISIA; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SEROTYPING; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DATABASES, GENETIC; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMICS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEROTYPING;

EID: 80053461389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025617     Document Type: Article

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