A 3.3-kb plasmid of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coil O157:H7 is closely related to the core region of the Salmonella typhimurium antibiotic resistance plasmid NTP16

Plasmid

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 134-140

  Haarmann, C ^a   Karch, H ^a   Frosch, M ^a   Schmidt, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYME; NUCLEOTIDE;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031917507     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1997.1333     Document Type: Article

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