Complete nucleotide sequence of pVQS1 containing a quinolone resistance determinant from Salmonella enterica serovar virchow associated with foreign travel

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1861-1864

  Karczmarczyk, Maria ^a   Stephan, Roger ^b   Hächler, Herbert ^b   Fanning, Séamus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Plasmids; qnrS; Salmonella spp.

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMID MEDIATED QUINOLONE RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PVQS1 GENE; QNRS1 GENE; SALMONELLA INFANTIS; SALMONELLA VIRCHOW; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRAVEL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUINOLONES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWITZERLAND; TRAVEL;

EID: 84864508274     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks158     Document Type: Article

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