A novel erythromycin resistance methylase gene (ermTR) in Streptococcus pyogenes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 257-262

  Seppälä, Helena ^a   Skurnik, Mikael ^b   Soini, Hanna ^a   Roberts, Marilyn C ^c   Huovinen, Pentti ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0344431336     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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