The cassettes and 3' conserved segment of an integron from Klebsiella oxytoca plasmid pACM1

Plasmid

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 104-114

  Preston, Karen E ^a   Radomski, Christopher C A ^b   Venezia, Richard A ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TerraGen Discovery Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA;

EID: 0032842186     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1999.1418     Document Type: Article

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