Novel conjugative transferable multiple drug resistance plasmid pAQU1 from photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae isolated from marine aquaculture environment

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 263-272

  Nonaka, Lisa ^a   Maruyama, Fumito ^b   Miyamoto, Manabu ^a   Miyakoshi, Masatoshi ^c   Kurokawa, Ken ^d   Masuda, Michiaki ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aquaculture environment; Conjugative plasmid; Multi drug resistance

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; SEA WATER;

AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIBRIONACEAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AQUACULTURE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIBRIONACEAE;

EID: 84867330333     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME11338     Document Type: Article

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