Resistance gene capture

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 483-488

  Rowe Magnus, Dean A ^a   Mazel, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032849902     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(99)00004-1     Document Type: Review

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