Enterococcal transposon Tn5384: Evolution of a composite transposon through cointegration of enterococcal and staphylococcal plasmids

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1854-1858

  Bonafede, Mary E ^a   Carias, Lenore L ^a   Rice, Louis B ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE TRANSFER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0030868744     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.9.1854     Document Type: Article

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