Conservation and Distribution of the Benzalkonium Chloride Resistance Cassette bcrABC in Listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 6067-6074

  Dutta, Vikrant ^a,b   Elhanaf, Driss ^a   Kathariou, Sophia ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Envirologix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZALKONIUM; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; FOOD PROCESSING PLANTS; LARGE PLASMIDS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOCYTOGENES; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; SEROTYPES;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FOOD PROCESSING; LISTERIA;

STRAIN;

BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; CHLORIDE; FOOD PROCESSING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PLASMID;

BACTERIAL DNA; BENZALKONIUM; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID;

BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISINFECTANTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884169838     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01751-13     Document Type: Article

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