Identification of IncA/C plasmid replication and maintenance genes and development of a plasmid multilocus sequence typing scheme

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Hancock, Steven J ^a   Phan, Minh Duy ^a   Peters, Kate M ^a   Forde, Brian M ^a   Chong, Teik Min ^b   Yin, Wai Fong ^b   Chan, Kok Gan ^b   Paterson, David L ^c   Walsh, Timothy R ^d   Beatson, Scott A ^a   Schembri, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; IncA C plasmid; New Delhi metallo beta lactamase; Plasmid multilocus sequence typing; Uropathogenic E. coli

Indexed keywords

METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE NDM-1; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPLICATION; INCOMPATIBILITY GROUP A C PLASMID; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; CLASSIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 85011061647     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01740-16     Document Type: Article

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