Identification of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance qnr genes in multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria from hospital wastewaters and receiving waters in the Jinan Area, China

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 446-456

  Xia, Ruirui ^a,b   Ren, Ye ^a   Xu, Hai ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong LongLive Bio technology Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHINA; CITROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; QNR GENE; QNRA1 GENE; QNRB2 GENE; QNRB26 GENE; QNRB4 GENE; QNRB6 GENE; QNRB9 GENE; QNRS1 GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SHIGELLA;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CHINA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; PLASMIDS; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84888386455     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2012.0210     Document Type: Article

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