A survey of five broad-host-range plasmids in gram-negative bacilli isolated from patients

Plasmid

Volumn 74, Issue , 2014, Pages 9-14

  Zhang, Guo qiang ^a   Yao, Yi hui ^a   Yu, Xiao lu ^a   Niu, Jian jun ^a  

^a ZHONGSHAN HOSPITAL OF XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Plasmid; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMID INCA; PLASMID INCN; PLASMID INCP; PLASMID INCQ; PLASMID INCW; PREVALENCE; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPLICON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; URINE; WOUND; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PLASMIDS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPLICON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902006781     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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