Antibiotic resistance in the ECOR collection: Integrons and identification of a novel aad gene

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1568-1574

  Mazel, Didier ^a   Dychinco, Broderick ^b,c   Webb, Vera A ^b,d   Davies, Julian ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Lookfar Solutions Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASTROMICIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LIVIDOMYCIN; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; NEOMYCIN; OXACILLIN; PAROMOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0034087196     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.6.1568-1574.2000     Document Type: Article

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