The erythromycin resistance gene from the Bacteroides conjugal transposon Tcr Emr 7853 is nearly identical to ermG from Bacillus sphaericus

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 506-508

  Cooper, Andrew J ^a   Shoemaker, Nadja B ^a   Salyers, Abigail A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTEROIDES; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030058633     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.2.506     Document Type: Article

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