Dissemination of the strA-strB streptomycin-resistance genes among commensal and pathogenic bacteria from humans, animals, and plants

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 133-143

  Sundin, G W ^a   Bender, C L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Gene transfer; RSF1010; Transposon Tn5393

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME MAP; DRUG EFFECT; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; REPLICON; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; REPLICON; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030087721     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.1996.tb00299.x     Document Type: Review

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