Conjugal transfer of the 5-nitroimidazole resistance plasmid pIP417 from Bacteroides vulgatus BV-17: Characterization and nucleotide sequence analysis of the mobilization region

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 6671-6676

  Trinh, Stephanie ^a   Haggoud, Abdellatif ^a,b   Reysset, Gilles ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b MOULAY ISMAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 NITROIMIDAZOLE; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PREVOTELLA;

EID: 0029807317     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.23.6671-6676.1996     Document Type: Article

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