Analysis of a Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 078 100 kilobase island reveals the presence of a novel transposon, Tn6164

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Corver, Jeroen ^a,d   Bakker, Dennis ^a   Brouwer, Michael S M ^b   Harmanus, Céline ^a   Hensgens, Marjolein P ^a   Roberts, Adam P ^b   Lipman, Len J A ^c   Kuijper, Ed J ^a   Van Leeuwen, Hans C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Clostridium difficile; Phage; Transposable element; Virulence

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MATING; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RIBOTYPING; SWINE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 84863100346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-130     Document Type: Article

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