RecA-mediated gene conversion and aminoglycoside resistance in strains heterozygous for rRNA

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 447-453

  Prammananan, Therdsak ^a   Sander, Peter ^a   Springer, Burkhard ^a   Böttger, Erik C ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; HYGROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; RECA PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE CONVERSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE;

EID: 0032978275     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.3.447     Document Type: Article

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