Resistance gene transfer in anaerobes: New insights, new problems

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages

  Salyers, Abigail A ^a   Shoemaker, Nadja B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ACNE; ADULT; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTEROIDES; GENE TRANSFER; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0029804789     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.supplement_1.s36     Document Type: Article

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