A variety of Gram-positive bacteria carry mobile mef genes

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-25

  Luna, Vicki A ^a   Coates, Patricia ^b   Eady, E Anne ^b   Cove, Jonathan H ^b   Nguyen, Thanh T H ^a   Roberts, Marilyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE TRANSFER; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLINDAMYCIN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA PROBES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032838269     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/44.1.19     Document Type: Article

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