Conjugal transfer of plasmid DNA from Escherichia coli to enterococci: A method to make insertion mutations

Plasmid

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 182-186

  Teng, Fang ^a   Murray, Barbara E ^a   Weinstock, George M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CROSSING OVER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; SHUTTLE VECTOR; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031955863     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1998.1336     Document Type: Article

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