Intercontinental spread of promiscuous mercury-resistance transposons in environmental bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 321-329

  Yurieva, Olga ^a,b   Kholodii, Gennady ^a   Minakhin, Leonid ^a   Gorlenko, Zhosephine ^a   Kalyaeva, Eza ^a   Mindlin, Sofia ^a   Nikiforov, Vadim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030983272     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3261688.x     Document Type: Article

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