Tetracycline resistance determinants: Mechanisms of action, regulation of expression, genetic mobility, and distribution

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-24

  Roberts, Marilyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Tet determinant, distribution; Tet determinant, genetic mobility; Tet determinant, regualtion of expression; Tetracycline resistance, mechanism

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

EID: 0030273002     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-6445(96)00021-6     Document Type: Review

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