Trans-gram gene transfer: The case of β-lactamases;Transferencia génica trans-gram: El caso de las betalactamasas

Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 215-223

  Galan J C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

ACI 1; Betalactamase; BRO 1; Horizontal gene transfer

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE;

BACTERIAL GENE; GENE TRANSFER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER;

BETA-LACTAMASES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA;

EID: 0036761293     PISSN: 02143429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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