Antibiotic multiresistance plasmid pRSB101 isolated from a wastewater treatment plant is related to plasmids residing in phytopathogenic bacteria and carries eight different resistance determinants including a multidrug transport system

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3613-3630

  Szczepanowski, Rafael ^a   Krahn, Irene ^a   Linke, Burkhard ^a   Goesmann, Alexander ^a   Pühler, Alfred ^a   Schlüter, Andreas ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPIROME; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLYCOPROTEIN P; HYBRID PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PLASMID DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSFERASE; TRANSPOSASE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMPLICON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LOAD; INTEGRON; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLANT DISEASE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; XANTHOMONAS;

ANTIPORTERS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CEPHALOSPORINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NALIDIXIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; P-GLYCOPROTEINS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); R FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDES; SYNTENY; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIMETHOPRIM RESISTANCE; XANTHOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS AXONOPODIS PV. CITRI;

EID: 9144235601     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27317-0     Document Type: Article

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