Nucleic acid sequence and affiliation of pLUG10, a novel cadmium resistance plasmid from Staphylococcus lugdunensis

Plasmid

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-8

  Chaouni, Loubna Ben Abdallah ^a   Etienne, Jerome ^a   Greenland, Timothy ^b   Vandenesch, François ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS;

EID: 0030200194     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1996.0025     Document Type: Article

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