Tandem duplication in ermC translational attenuator of the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance plasmid pSES6 from Staphylococcus equorum

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 215-217

  Lodder, Gabriele ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^a   Gregory, Philip ^b   Dyke, Keith ^b  

^a Inst Kleintierforschung Celle/M   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINCOSAMINE DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; STREPTOGRAMIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA TRANSLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MACROLIDES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

EID: 0030048717     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.1.215     Document Type: Article

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