Transferable antibiotic resistance plasmids 1 from biogas plant digestates often belong to the IncP-1ε subgroup

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Wolters, Birgit ^a,b   Kyselková, Martina ^c   Krögerrecklenfort, Ellen ^a   Kreuzig, Robert ^b   Smalla, Kornelia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOIL BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA RESTRICTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INCP PLASMID; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPLICON; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 84920700311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00765     Document Type: Article

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