| multiple antimicrobial resistance in plague: an emerging public health risk. | antimicrobial resistance in yersinia pestis is rare, yet constitutes a significant international public health and biodefense threat. in 1995, the first multidrug resistant (mdr) isolate of y. pestis (strain ip275) was identified, and was shown to contain a self-transmissible plasmid (pip1202) that conferred resistance to many of the antimicrobials recommended for plague treatment and prophylaxis. comparative analysis of the dna sequence of y. pestis plasmid pip1202 revealed a near identical inc ... | 2007 | 17375195 |
| identification of culturable stream water bacteria from urban, agricultural, and forested watersheds using 16s rrna gene sequencing. | bacteria present in water samples taken on a weekly basis, from june 2004 through june 2005, from three streams, were cultured on coliscan easygel agar plates. colonies representative of a variety of colors and morphologies were subjected to amplification and sequencing of a 1000-1100 nt portion of the 16s rrna gene. a total of 528 colonies were sequenced; these categorized into 26 genera and 78 species. of 175 dark blue/purple colonies presumed to be e. coli, sequence analysis indicated that 45 ... | 2007 | 17878554 |