Characterization of a multiresistant mosaic plasmid from a fish farm sediment Exiguobacterium sp. isolate reveals aggregation of functional clinic-associated antibiotic resistance genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1482-1488

  Yang, Jing ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Wu, Jinyu ^b   Liu, Li ^a   Zhang, Gang ^a   Feng, Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; EXIGUOBACTERIUM SP; GENES ENCODING; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MOBILE ELEMENTS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; RESISTANCE GENES;

AQUACULTURE; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SEDIMENTS; STRAIN; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

GENES;

AGGREGATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MOBILITY; PLASMID;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; AQUACULTURE; BACILLALES; CHEMISTRY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PLASMID; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AQUACULTURE; BACILLALES; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84893374259     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03257-13     Document Type: Article

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