Characterization of the 6'-N-aminoglycoside acetyltransferase gene aac(6')-Iq from the integron of a natural multiresistance plasmid

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1506-1508

  Centrón, Daniela ^a,b,c   Roy, Paul H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; APRAMYCIN; FORTIMICIN; GENTAMICIN; ISEPAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; NETILMICIN; PENTISOMICIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031805101     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.6.1506     Document Type: Article

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