Class 1 integron-borne gene cassettes in multidrug-resistant Yersinia enterocolitica strains of different phenotypic and genetic types

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 421-425

  Soto, S M ^a   Lobato, M J ^a   Mendoza, M C ^a,b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^b Inst U   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFADIAZINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOTYPE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE STRUCTURE; INTEGRON; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; INTEGRONS; PHENOTYPE; R FACTORS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0037226096     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.1.421-425.2003     Document Type: Article

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