Tracking the evolutionary origin of the methicillin resistance gene: Cloning and sequencing of a homologue of mecA from a methicillin susceptible strain of Staphylococcus sciuri

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 435-441

  Wu, Shangwei ^a   Piscitelli, Claudia ^a   De Lencastre, Herminia ^a,b,c   Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; METICILLIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0030480839     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1996.2.435     Document Type: Article

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