Molecular epidemiology of the SRL pathogenicity island

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 727-734

  Turner, Sally A ^b   Luck, Shelley N ^b   Sakellaris, Harry ^b   Rajakumar, Kumar ^a   Adler, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE LOCUS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0037308606     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.2.727-734.2003     Document Type: Article

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