Transferable multiresistance plasmids carrying cfr in Enterococcus spp. from swine and farm environment

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-48

  Liu, Yang ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^b   Li, Yun ^c   Shen, Zhangqi ^d   Zhang, Qijing ^d   Wu, Congming ^a   Shen, Jianzhong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c Shijiazhuang Livestock Products Quality Inspection and Supervision Center   (China)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORFENICOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS THAILANDICUS; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIRESISTANCE PLASMID; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84872047634     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01605-12     Document Type: Article

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