Genes and spectrum: The theoretical limits

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL.1, 1998, Pages

  Amyes, Sebastian G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0031879544     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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