Macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance in Staphylococcus lentus results from the integration of part of a transposon into a small plasmid

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2224-2225

  Werckenthin, Christiane ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^a   Dyke, Keith ^b  

^a Inst fur Kleintierforschung der FAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; DALFOPRISTIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; STREPTOGRAMIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSPOSON; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 0029795612     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.9.2224     Document Type: Article

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