Replication of staphylococcal multiresistance plasmids

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2170-2178

  Firth, Neville ^a   Apisiridej, Sumalee ^a,c   Berg, Tracey ^a   O'Rourke, Brendon A ^a   Curnock, Steve ^b   Dyke, Keith G H ^b   Skurray, Ronald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS XYLOSUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; R FACTORS; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRIMETHOPRIM RESISTANCE;

POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS XYLOSUS;

EID: 0034082809     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.8.2170-2178.2000     Document Type: Article

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