First report of the multiresistance gene cfr in streptococcus suis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4061-4063

  Wang, Yang ^a   Li, Dexi ^a   Song, Li ^b   Liu, Yang ^a   He, Tao ^a   Liu, Hebing ^a   Wu, Congming ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^c   Shen, Jianzhong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China Institute of Veterinary Drugs Control   (China)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTIOFUR; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; LINEZOLID; TETRACYCLINE; TIAMULIN;

AMPLICON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, MDR; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; THIAMPHENICOL; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84880284567     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00713-13     Document Type: Article

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