In Vivo and in Vitro Cloning and Phenotype Characterization of Tellurite Resistance Determinant Conferred by Plasmid pTE53 of a Clinical Isolate of Escherichia coli

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 589-599

  Burian, J ^a,f   Tu, Nguyen ^a   Kl'ucar L' ^a   Guller, L ^b   Lloyd Jones, G ^c   Stuchlik S ^a   Fejdi, P ^d   Siekel, P ^e   Turna J ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d Inst Petrol and Hydrocarbon Gases ^*  (Slovakia)

^e Inst Petrol and Hydrocarbon Gases   (Slovakia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL DNA; POTASSIUM TELLURATE(IV); TELLURIUM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; TELLURIUM;

EID: 0032233244     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02816374     Document Type: Article

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