Demonstrating plasmid-based horizontal gene transfer in complex environmental matrices: A practical approach for a critical review

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 493, Issue , 2014, Pages 872-882

  Bellanger, Xavier ^a   Guilloteau, Hélène ^a   Bonot, Sébastien ^a,b   Merlin, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance dissemination; Environmental bacterial communities; Eukaryotic predation; PB10; Plasmid transfer

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; GENE TRANSFER; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; EUKARYOTIC PREDATION; PB10; PLASMID TRANSFER;

DNA;

AMOXICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACKGROUND LEVEL; EUKARYOTE; GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLASMID;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUPRIAVIDUS; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; EFFLUENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; INOCULATION; MANURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SEDIMENT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; CONJUGATION; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLASMID PB10;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84903823194     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.06.070     Document Type: Article

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