Transfer and expression of a multiple antibiotic resistance plasmid in marine bacteria

Current Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 347-351

  Chandrasekaran, Subramanian ^a   Venkatesh, Balakrishnan ^a   Lalithakumari, Damodharan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BREVIBACILLUS BREVIS; CELL CONTACT; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVOBACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATING; MICROCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROCOCCUS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVIBACILLUS BREVIS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; MICROCOCCUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0031700964     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900390     Document Type: Article

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