"Distribution and functional identification of complex class 1 integrons"

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue , 2013, Pages 88-96

  Quiroga, María Paula ^a   Arduino, Sonia Marina ^b,c,d   Merkier, Andrea Karina ^a   Quiroga, Cecilia ^a   Petroni, Alejandro ^e   Roy, Paul H ^c,d   Centrón, Daniela ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b CEMIC   (Argentina)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

BlaCTX M 2 gene; Complex class 1 integrons; ISCR1; QnrB10 gene; Recombinase

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; RECOMBINASE;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOINFORMATICS; BLA CTX M 2 GENE; BLA DHA 1 GENE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; COMPLEX CLASS 1 INTEGRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DFRA3B GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTEGRON; ISCR1 GENE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORF513 GENE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; QNRB10 GENE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

BLA(CTX-M-2) GENE; COMPLEX CLASS 1 INTEGRONS; ISCR1; QNRB10 GENE; RECOMBINASE;

ARGENTINA; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES;

EID: 84881008823     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.06.029     Document Type: Article

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