Determination of the chromosomal relationship between mecA and gyrA in methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 306-312

  Fey, Paul D ^a,b   Climo, Michael W ^a   Archer, Gordon L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COAGULASE; DNA GYRASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031893393     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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