Cloning and characterization of a tetracycline resistance determinant present in Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 618-626

  Luo, Zhao Qing ^a   Farrand, Stephen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COSMID; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTON TRANSPORT; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSPOSON;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032935867     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.2.618-626.1999     Document Type: Article

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