Characterization of the drug resistance plasmid R2418: Restriction map and role of insertion and deletion in its evolution

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 12-18

  Guessouss, Mohamed ^a   Ben Mahrez, Kamel ^a   Belhadj, Cherifa ^b   Belhadj, Omrane ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Conjugation; Escherichia coli; Plasmid; Restriction map; Transformation; Transposon

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBENICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONJUGATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030030693     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/m96-003     Document Type: Article

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