Tn916 family conjugative transposons and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance determinants

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1871-1877

  Rice, Louis B ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA TRANSFER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0031928701     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.8.1871     Document Type: Short Survey

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