Antibiotic resistance conferred by a conjugative plasmid and a class I integron in Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains isolated in Albania and Italy

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 693-696

  Falbo, Vincenzo ^a   Carattoli, Alessandra ^a   Tosini, Fabio ^a   Pezzella, Cristina ^a   Dionisi, Anna Maria ^a   Luzzi, Ida ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

2,4 DIAMINO 6,7 DIISOPROPYLPTERIDINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; INTEGRASE; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFATHIAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ALBANIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE CASSETTE; INTEGRON; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0033048849     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.3.693     Document Type: Article

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