Presence of SXT integrating conjugative element in marine bacteria isolated from the mucus of the coral Fungia echinata from Andaman Sea

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 338, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 118-123

  Badhai, Jhasketan ^a   Kumari, Prabla ^a   Krishnan, Pandian ^b   Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ^c   Das, Subrata K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (India)

^b CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

Fungia echinata; ICE; Marinomonas; SXT; Vibrio fortis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; INTEGRASE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; PROTEIN SXT; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTEROMONAS MACLEODII; ALTEROMONAS MARINA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; DNA STRUCTURE; FUNGIA ECHINATA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INDIA; INTEGRATING CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINOMONAS; MARINOMONAS COMMUNIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS FLAVIPULCHRA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS PHENOLICA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS RUBRA; RNA SEQUENCE; VIBRIO; VIBRIO AZUREUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO COMMUNIS; VIBRIO DIABOLICUS; VIBRIO FORTIS; VIBRIO MEDITERRANEI; VIBRIO NEREIS; VIBRIO OWENSII; VIBRIO PONTICUS; VIBRIO ROTIFERIANUS; VIBRIO TUBIASHII;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGIA ECHINATA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MARINOMONAS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO FORTIS;

EID: 84871720301     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12033     Document Type: Article

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