Presence of Tn1545 in clinical strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae with mef(A), erm(B), tet(M), catpC194 and aph3′-III genes;Presencia del transposón conjugativo Tn1545 en cepas de Streptococcus pneumoniae con los genes mef(A), erm(b), tet(M), catpC194 y aph3′-III

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 506-511

  Seral, Cristina ^a   Castillo, F Javier ^a   García, Concepción ^a   Rubio Calvo, Ma Carmen ^a   Gómez Lus, Rafael ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO LOZANO BLESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conjugative transposons; Macrolides; Resistance; S. pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MINOCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; KANAMYCIN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 1642505524     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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