Antibiotic susceptibility profiles of dairy leuconostoc, analysis of the genetic basis of atypical resistances and transfer of genes in vitro and in a food matrix

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Flórez, Ana Belén ^a   Campedelli, Ilenia ^b   Delgado, Susana ^a   Alegría, Ángel ^a,b   Salvetti, Elisa ^b,c   Felis, Giovanna E ^b   Mayo, Baltasar ^a   Torriani, Sandra ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF DAIRY PRODUCTS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; NEOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AADE GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APHA 3 GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERM GENE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUCONOSTOC; LEUCONOSTOC CARNOSUM; LEUCONOSTOC CITREUM; LEUCONOSTOC LACTIS; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SAT4 GENE; TET GENE; VAT GENE; WEISSELLA; WEISSELLA HELLENICA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BOVINE; DAIRYING; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEUCONOSTOC; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 84953792099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145203     Document Type: Article

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