Characterization and comparative analysis of antibiotic resistance plasmids isolated from a wastewater treatment plant

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Rahube, Teddie O ^a,b   Viana, Laia Santiña ^c   Koraimann, Günther ^c   Yost, Christopher K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b BOTSWANA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Botswana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HEAVY METAL; MACROLIDE; NEOMYCIN; PLASMID DNA; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLOSIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 84910045966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00558     Document Type: Article

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