Insight into the mobilome of Aeromonas strains

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Piotrowska, Marta ^a   Popowska, Magdalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aeromonas; Antibiotic resistance gene; Horizontal gene transfer; Integron; Mobilome; Plasmid; Transposon; Virulence factor

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MERCURY; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TRANSPOSASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AEROMONAS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTINUOUS PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; INVERTED REPEAT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; REVIEW; RISK; SURVIVAL; TRANSPOSON;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 84931273476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00494     Document Type: Review

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