Detection of a common and persistent tet(L)-carrying plasmid in chicken-waste-impacted farm soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3203-3213

  You, Yaqi ^a   Hilpert, Markus ^a   Ward, Mandy J ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ANIMAL WASTES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AS SPECIES; BROILER CHICKENS; COPY NUMBER; CULTURABLE; FARM SOILS; GENETIC ELEMENTS; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REGIONAL FORESTS; SAMPLING PERIOD; SOIL BACTERIUM; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL PH; SOIL SAMPLING;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGY; DNA; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; FARMS; GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SURVEYS;

SOILS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; DOMESTIC WASTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLASMID; POULTRY; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SAMPLING; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLALES; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROSARCINA;

ANIMALS; BACILLALES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHICKENS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPOROSARCINA; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPOROSARCINA;

EID: 84861154288     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07763-11     Document Type: Article

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