Molecular analysis of naturally occurring ermC-encoding plasmids in staphylococci isolated from animals with and without previous contact with macrolide/lincosamide antibiotics

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-15

  Lodder, Gabriele ^a   Werckenthin, Christiane ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^a   Dyke, Keith ^b  

^a Inst Kleintierforschung Celle/M   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ermC gene; PCR assay; Plasmid; Staphylococcus sp.; Translational attenuation

Indexed keywords

LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MACROLIDES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030789320     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(97)00016-3     Document Type: Article

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