A GC1 Acinetobacter baumannii isolate carrying AbaR3 and the aminoglycoside resistance transposon TnaphA6 in a conjugative plasmid

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 955-958

  Hamidian, Mohammad ^a   Holt, Kathryn E ^b   Pickard, Derek ^c   Dougan, Gordon ^c   Hall, Ruth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. baumannii; AphA6; Conjugative resistance plasmids

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; MEROPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII GLOBAL CLONE 1; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC ISLAND; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

A. BAUMANNII; APHA6; CONJUGATIVE RESISTANCE PLASMIDS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84896440932     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt454     Document Type: Article

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