Assessment of the fitness impacts on Escherichia coli of acquisition of antibiotic resistance genes encoded by different types of genetic element | Zendy

Virve I. Enne | Zendy; Anne A. Delsol | Zendy; G. R. Davis | Zendy; SusanK. Hayward | Zendy; J.M. Roe | Zendy; PM Bennett | Zendy

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Assessment of the fitness impacts on Escherichia coli of acquisition of antibiotic resistance genes encoded by different types of genetic element

Author(s) -

Virve I. Enne,

Anne A. Delsol,

G. R. Davis,

SusanK. Hayward,

J.M. Roe,

PM Bennett

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dki255

Subject(s) - escherichia coli , antibiotics , antibiotic resistance , biology , bacteria , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , enterobacteriaceae , genetics

Little is known of the fitness cost that antibiotic resistance exerts on wild-type bacteria, especially in their natural environments. We therefore examined the fitness costs that several antibiotic resistance elements imposed on a wild-type Escherichia coli isolate, both in the laboratory and in a pig gut colonization model.

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