A novel tetracycline-resistant determinant, tet(U), is encoded on the plasmid pKQ10 in Enterococcus faecium

Plasmid

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 71-80

  Ridenhour, Mary Beth ^a   Fletcher, Hansel M ^b   Mortensen, Joel E ^a,c,d   Daneo Moore, Lolita ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030009313     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1996.0009     Document Type: Article

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