Antibiotic resistance plasmids spread among natural isolates of Escherichia coli in spite of CRISPR elements

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2997-3004

  Touchon, Marie ^a,b   Charpentier, Sophie ^c,d,e   Pognard, Dominique ^c   Picard, Bertrand ^d,f   Arlet, Guillaume ^g,h   Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b   Denamur, Erick ^d,e   Branger, Catherine ^c,d,e  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c HÔPITAL LOUIS MOURIER   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^g SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^h HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT ELEMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; PLASMIDS;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84870357797     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.060814-0     Document Type: Article

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