Evidence for recent intergeneric transfer of a new tetracycline resistance gene, tet(W), isolated from Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens, and the occurrence of tet(O) in ruminai bacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-64

  Barbosa, Teresa M ^a   Scott, Karen P ^a   Flint, Harry J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUTYRIVIBRIO FIBRISOLVENS; MITSUOKELLA MULTACIDA; OVIS ARIES; SELENOMONAS RUMINANTIUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUIDAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; TET O RESISTANCE PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINANT STOMACH; SHEEP; STOP CODON; SWINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATTLE; CODON, TERMINATOR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMEN; SHEEP; SWINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033068947     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00004.x     Document Type: Article

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