Characterisation of integrons and antibiotic resistance genes in Danish multiresistant Salmonella enterica Typhimurium DT104

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 177-181

  Sandvang, Dorthe ^a,b   Aarestrup, Frank Møller ^a   Jensen, Lars Bogø ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Integron; Salmonella enterica Typhimurium DT104

Indexed keywords

SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DENMARK; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRON; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SWINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORMICIDAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SUS SCROFA; TYPHIMURIUM;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE;

EID: 0344878871     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00473-4     Document Type: Article

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