Monitoring the spread of broad host and narrow host range plasmids in soil microcosms

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-66

  Pukall, R ^a   Tschape H ^b   Smalla, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SERRATIA; SERRATIA LIQUEFACIENS;

EID: 0343408482     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-6496(96)00021-9     Document Type: Article

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