Sequences of two related multiple antibiotic resistance virulence plasmids sharing a unique IS26-related molecular signature isolated from different Escherichia coli pathotypes from different hosts

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Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Venturini, Carola ^a   Hassan, Karl A ^b   Chowdhury, Piklu Roy ^b,c,d   Paulsen, Ian T ^b   Walker, Mark J ^a   Djordjevic, Steven P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; SERINE PROTEASE AUTOTRANSPORTER; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFATHIAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSPOSASE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; INTEGRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMID PO111 CRL115; PLASMID PO26 CRL125; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, CIRCULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; INTEGRONS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84892583426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078862     Document Type: Article

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