The tetracycline resistance gene tet(M) exhibits mosaic structure

Plasmid

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 156-163

  Oggioni, Marco R ^a   Dowson, Christopher G ^b,d   Smith, John Maynard ^b   Provvedi, Roberta ^a,e   Pozzi, Gianni ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 0030152526     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1996.0018     Document Type: Article

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