Super-integrons

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 9-10, 1999, Pages 641-651

  Rowe Magnus, Dean A ^a   Guérout, Anne Marie ^a   Mazel, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Dissemination; Evolution; Integron; Repetitive sequences

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE FUNCTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0343621491     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(99)00127-8     Document Type: Article

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