Mapping studies and genetic analysis of transfer genes of the multi-resistant IncHI2 plasmid, R478

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-29

  Page, David T ^a   Whelan, Kenneth F ^a   Colleran, Emer ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Conjugation; IncHI2; Multi resistance; Plasmid transfer; R478; Transposon

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; COLICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; RIFAMPICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; R FACTORS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032821503     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00386-9     Document Type: Article

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