Partial characterization of a genomic island associated with the multidrug resistance region of Salmonella enterica Typhymurium DT104

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 285-291

  Boyd, David A ^a   Peters, Geoffrey A ^a   Ng, Lai King ^a   Mulvey, Michael R ^a  

^a Bureau of Microbiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genomic island; Multidrug resistance; Retron; Salmonella enterica Typhymurium DT104

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 0034663936     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00264-0     Document Type: Article

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