Plasmid-encoded tetracycline resistance in Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovars choleraesuis and typhimurium: Identification of complete and truncated Tn1721 elements

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-103

  Frech, Gabriele ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^a  

^a Inst F Tierzucht und Tierverhalten   (Germany)

Author keywords

Plasmid; Salmonella choleraesuis; Salmonella typhimurium; Tetracycline resistance; Tn1721; Transposon

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA CHOLERAESUIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLUMBIDAE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SWINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032767192     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00226-8     Document Type: Article

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