Grouping of Frankia strains on the basis of susceptibility to antibiotics, pigment production and host specificity

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1265-1275

  Dobritsa, Svetlana V ^a,b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiating characters; Frankia; Phenotypic clusters

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CARBENICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NOVOBIOCIN; PENICILLIN G; POLYMYXIN B; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACTINOMYCES; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; FRANKIA; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

FRANKIA;

EID: 0031755706     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-48-4-1265     Document Type: Article

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