IS431mec-mediated integration of a bleomycin-resistance gene into the chromosome of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain isolated in Japan

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-66

  Sugiyama, M ^a   Yuasa, K ^a   Bhuiyan, Md Z A ^a   Iwai, Y ^a   Masumi, N ^a   Ueda, K ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLEOMYCIN; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; GENES, BACTERIAL; JAPAN; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0029793750     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002530050783     Document Type: Article

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