Multiple Antibiotic Resistance (mar) Locus in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium DT104

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1190-1197

  Randall, Luke P ^a   Woodward, Martin J ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MARA PROTEIN, E COLI; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; PHOTOPROTEIN; PORIN; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUTATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CYCLOHEXANES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; PORINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SALICYLATES; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0035286291     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.3.1190-1197.2001     Document Type: Article

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