Structure and dissemination of a chromosomal insertion element encoding macrolide efflux in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 56-65

  Gay, K ^a   Stephens, D S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0035399805     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/321001     Document Type: Article

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