Antibiotic resistance in microbes

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 9-10, 1999, Pages 742-754

  Mazel, D ^a   Davies, Jed ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Ecology; Horizontal gene transfer; Integron; Mutation

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BLEOMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; ISONIAZID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

EID: 0032741453     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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