Cloning and sequence analysis of two copies of a 23S rRNA gene from Helicobacter pylori and association of clarithromycin resistance with 23S rRNA mutations

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2621-2628

  Taylor, Diane E ^a   Ge, Zhongming ^a   Purych, Dale ^a   Lo, Tony ^a   Hiratsuka, Koji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; RNA 23S;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS RESISTANCE; GENE CLUSTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030734728     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.12.2621     Document Type: Article

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