Characterization of Gram-positive tellurite resistance encoded by the Streptococcus pneumoniae tehB gene

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 385-392

  Liu, Mingfu ^a   Taylor, Diane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Filamentation; Gram positive bacterium; Streptococcus pneumoniae; tehB gene; Tellurite resistance

Indexed keywords

TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TELLURIUM;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EIKENELLA CORRODENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032961609     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00168-8     Document Type: Article

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