Why are antibiotic resistance genes so resistant to elimination?

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2321-2325

  Salyers, Abigail A ^a   Amábile Cuevas, Carlos F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Fundacion LUSARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENE TRANSFER; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0342460609     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.11.2321     Document Type: Short Survey

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