PCERC1, a small, globally disseminated plasmid carrying the dfrA14 cassette in the strA gene of the sul2-strA-strB gene cluster

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 364-371

  Anantham, Sashindran ^a   Hall, Ruth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI; DFRA14 GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PCERC1 GENE; PCERC2 GENE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRA GENE; STRB GENE; SUL2 GENE; TET(A) GENE;

ANIMALS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84864333085     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2012.0008     Document Type: Article

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