Isolation of novel IncA/C and IncN fluoroquinolone resistance plasmids from an antibiotic-polluted lake

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2709-2717

  Flach, Carl Fredrik ^a   Johnning, Anna ^a,b   Nilsson, Ida ^a   Smalla, Kornelia ^c   Kristiansson, Erik ^b   Larsson, D G Joakim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; LAKE WATER; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INCA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAKE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; WATER POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE ORDER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; LAKE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; LAKES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLASMIDS; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84943762008     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkv167     Document Type: Article

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