Rapid screening technique for class 1 integrons in Enterobacteriaceae and nonfermenting gram-negative bacteria and its use in molecular epidemiology

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1022-1029

  Maguire, A J ^a   Brown, D F J ^a   Gray, J J ^a   Desselberger, U ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL DNA; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TRANSFERASE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC STABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INTEGRON; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; TECHNIQUE;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0035077011     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.4.1022-1029.2001     Document Type: Article

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