Conjugative mobilization of the rolling-circle plasmid pIP823 from Listeria monocytogenes BM4293 among gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3368-3374

  Charpentier, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Gerbaud, Guy ^a   Courvalin, Patrice ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HELICASE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS SP.; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0033059696     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.11.3368-3374.1999     Document Type: Article

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