An in Vitro chicken gut model demonstrates transfer of a multidrug resistance plasmid from Salmonella to commensal Escherichia coli

mBio

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Card, Roderick M ^a   Cawthraw, Shaun A ^a   Nunez Garcia, Javier ^a   Ellis, Richard J ^a   Kay, Gemma ^b,d   Pallen, Mark J ^b,e   Woodward, Martin J ^c   Anjum, Muna F ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Enteric pathogens; Escherichia coli; Horizontal gene transfer; Plasmids; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; RNA 16S; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHEMOSTAT; CHICKEN; COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRMICUTES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RUMINOCOCCACEAE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES RICHNESS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ANIMAL; CECUM; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CECUM; CEFOTAXIME; CHICKENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA;

EID: 85029222100     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00777-17     Document Type: Article

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