Association of different mobile elements to generate novel integrative elements

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2023-2032

  Rice, L B ^a  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Insertion sequence; Integron; Multiresistance; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; INTEGRON; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA; CROSS INFECTION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RETROELEMENTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0036966422     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180200002     Document Type: Review

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