Mercury resistance determinants related to Tn21, Tn1696, and Tn5053 in enterobacteria from the preantibiotic era

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1115-1119

  Essa, Ashraf M M ^a   Julian, Daniel J ^a   Kidd, Stephen P ^a   Brown, Nigel L ^a   Hobman, Jon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MERCURY;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CATALYSIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

EID: 0037417019     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.3.1115-1119.2003     Document Type: Article

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