Chloramphenicol resistance in Clostridium difficile is encoded on Tn4453 transposons that are closely related to Tn4451 from Clostridium perfringens

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1563-1567

  Lyras, Dena ^a   Storie, Christine ^a   Huggins, Andrea S ^a   Crellin, Paul K ^a   Bannam, Trudi L ^a   Rood, Julian I ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DRUG BINDING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0031808781     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.7.1563     Document Type: Article

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