Distribution of the antiseptic-resistance genes qacE and qacEΔ1 in Gram-negative bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-178

  Kazama, Hitoshi ^a   Hamashima, Hajime ^a   Sasatsu, Masanori ^a   Arai, Taketoshi ^a  

^a SHOWA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiseptic resistance; Gram negative bacteria; Integron; Polymerase chain reaction; qac

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INTEGRON; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SPECIES; TECHNIQUE; VIBRIO;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; VIBRIO;

EID: 0032519958     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00563-6     Document Type: Article

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