Broad diversity of conjugative plasmids in integron-carrying bacteria from wastewater environments

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 330, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-164

  Moura, Alexandra ^a   Oliveira, Cláudia ^a   Henriques, Isabel ^a   Smalla, Kornelia ^b   Correia, António ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aeromonas; Antibiotic resistance; Enterobacteriaceae; Horizontal gene transfer; Mobile genetic element; Plasmid diversity

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFALOTIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS MEDIA; AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA; AEROMONAS VERONII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPLICON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SHIGELLA; WASTE WATER;

AEROMONAS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INTEGRONS; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS MEDIA; AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA; AEROMONAS SP.; AEROMONAS VERONII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER SP.; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SHIGELLA SP.;

EID: 84859439313     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02544.x     Document Type: Article

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