Persistent, toxin-antitoxin system-independent, tetracycline resistance-encoding plasmid from a dairy Enterococcus faecium Isolate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 7096-7103

  Li, Xinhui ^a,b   Alvarez, Valente ^a   Harper, Willis James ^a   Wang, Hua H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED RESISTANCE; ACRIDINE ORANGE; BROAD SPECTRUM; DNA SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ELECTROPORATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE CLUSTERS; NATURAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPEN READING FRAME; RETENTION RATE; S. MUTANS; SOUTHERN HYBRIDIZATION; STABILIZATION MECHANISMS; STABILIZATION SYSTEMS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACILLI; DNA; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENES; IMPACT RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STABILIZATION;

TRANSCRIPTION;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; TETRACYCLINE;

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGY; HYBRIDIZATION; MUTATION; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; TOXIN; TRANSFORMATION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; DAIRY PRODUCT; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 82955240545     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05168-11     Document Type: Article

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