Antimicrobial resistance and distribution of sul genes and integron-associated inti genes among uropathogenic Escherichia coli in Queensland, Australia

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1633-1642

  Gündoǧdu, Aycan ^a   Long, Ysanne Beverley ^a   Vollmerhausen, Tara Leigh ^a   Katouli, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTETAN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; INTEGRASE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULFAFURAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; INTEGRON; INTEGRON ASSOCIATED INTEGRASE GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUL GENE; SUL1 GENE; SUL2 GENE; SUL3 GENE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; QUEENSLAND; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SULFONAMIDES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80054732663     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.034140-0     Document Type: Article

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