Novel streptomycin and spectinomycin resistance gene as a gene cassette within a class 1 integron isolated from Escherichia coli

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3036-3038

  Sandvang, Dorthe ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0032762779     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.12.3036     Document Type: Article

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