Coastal Seawater Bacteria Harbor a Large Reservoir of Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance Determinants in Jiaozhou Bay, China

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 187-199

  Zhao, Jing yi ^a   Dang, Hongyue ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SEA WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BAY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BAYS; CHINA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; QUINOLONES; SEAWATER;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS SP.; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA ALGAE;

EID: 84862806588     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0008-z     Document Type: Article

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