Characterization of fluoroquinolone resistance and qnr diversity in Enterobacteriaceae from municipal biosolids

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Kaplan, Ella ^a,b   Ofek, Maya ^a,b   Jurkevitch, Edouard ^b   Cytryn, Eddie ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Antibiotic resistance; Biosolids; Ciprofloxacin; Fluoroquinolone; Integron; Qnr

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; FERTILIZER; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOSOLID; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUOROQUINOLONE RESISTANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTEGRON; MICROFLORA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QNR GENE; SLUDGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

EID: 84884222893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00144     Document Type: Article

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