A novel role for antibiotic resistance plasmids in facilitating Salmonella adaptation to non-host environments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 950-962

  Paytubi, Sonia ^a   Aznar, Sonia ^a   Madrid, Cristina ^a   Balsalobre, Carlos ^a   Dillon, Shane C ^c   Dorman, Charles J ^c   Juárez, Antonio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PLASMID; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TEMPERATURE;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84898059432     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12244     Document Type: Article

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