Genetic characterization of fluoroquinolone resistant Escherichia coli from urban streams and municipal and hospital effluents

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Varela, Ana Rita ^a,b   Macedo, Gonçalo N ^a   Nunes, Olga C ^b   Manaia, Célia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

E. coli MLST; Plasmids replicon type; PMQR; Quinolone resistance; Water

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTICS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CHROMOSOME; EFFLUENT; FECAL COLIFORM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; MUTATION; PLASMID; STREAM; URBAN DRAINAGE; WASTEWATER; WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; QEPA PROTEIN, E COLI; QNR PROTEIN, E COLI; WASTE WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMID; RIVER; WASTE WATER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CIPROFLOXACIN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA GYRASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS; RIVERS; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84938978684     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiv015     Document Type: Article

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