Identification of tet(B), encoding high-level tetracycline resistance, in Neisseria meningitidis [3]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4045-4046

  Takahashi, Hideyuki ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a   Kuroki, Toshiro ^b   Watanabe, Yuko ^b   Yamai, Shiro ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE STRUCTURE; JAPAN; LETTER; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETB GENE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 0036896457     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.12.4045-4046.2002     Document Type: Letter

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