Necrotic enteritis-derived clostridium perfringens strain with three closely related independently conjugative toxin and antibiotic resistance plasmids

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bannam, Trudi L ^a,b   Yan, Xu Xia ^a   Harrison, Paul F ^a   Seemann, Torsten ^a   Keyburn, Anthony L ^a,b,c   Stubenrauch, Christopher ^a   Weeramantri, Lakmini H ^a   Cheung, Jackie K ^a   McClane, Bruce A ^a,d   Boyce, John D ^a,b   Moore, Robert J ^a,b,c   Rood, Julian I ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; TETRACYCLINE; THIAMPHENICOL; TOXIN NETB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATP GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPB2 GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; NECROTIZING ENTERITIS; NETB GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 80455129774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00190-11     Document Type: Article

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