The identification of a tetracycline resistance gene tet(M), on a Tn916-like transposon, in the Bacillus cereus group

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 251-256

  Agersø, Yvonne ^a   Jensen, Lars Bogø ^a   Givskov, Michael ^a   Roberts, Marilyn C ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Horizontal transfer; tet(M)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER; MANURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS CEREUS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; POSIBACTERIA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037057118     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00883-2     Document Type: Article

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