Detection and linkage to mobile genetic elements of tetracycline resistance gene tet(M) in Escherichia coli isolates from pigs

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jurado Rabadán, Sonia ^a   de la Fuente, Ricardo ^a   Ruiz Santa Quiteria, José A ^a   Orden, José A ^a   de Vries, Lisbeth E ^b   Agersø, Yvonne ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

E. coli; Horizontal gene transfer; Pigs; tet(M)

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TET M RESISTANCE PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; SWINE DISEASE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 84904082982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-10-155     Document Type: Article

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