Monitoring horizontal antibiotic resistance gene transfer in a colonic fermentation model

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 210-219

  Haug, Martina C ^a   Tanner, Sabine A ^a   Lacroix, Christophe ^a   Stevens, Marc J A ^a   Meile, Leo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Enterococcus faecalis; Gut microbiota; PRE25

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; FECES; FERMENTATION; GENE TRANSFER; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INFANT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS AVIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 80054104414     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01149.x     Document Type: Article

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