Characterisation of two new gene cassettes, aadA5 and dfrA17

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 265-269

  White, Peter A ^a   McIver, Christopher J ^a   Deng, Yi Mo ^a   Rawlinson, William D ^a  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

aadA5; dfrA17; Gene cassette; Integron; Trimethoprim resistance

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTEGRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIMETHOPRIM RESISTANCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033987058     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00600-X     Document Type: Article

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