Integration of pT181-like tetracycline resistance plasmids into large staphylococcal plasmids involves IS257

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2542-2544

  Werckenthin, Christiane ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^a   Roberts, Marilyn C ^b  

^a Inst fur Kleintierforschung der FAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029861261     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.11.2542     Document Type: Article

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