Antibiotics shaping bacterial genome: Deletion of an is91 flanked virulence determinant upon exposure to subinhibitory antibiotic concentrations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Pedró, Laura ^a   Baños, Rosa C ^a   Aznar, Sonia ^b   Madrid, Cristina ^b   Balsalobre, Carlos ^b   Juárez, Antonio ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOMIC ISLAND; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; SHIGELLA; WILD TYPE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 80855133560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027606     Document Type: Article

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