Integrons or super integrons?

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-4

  Hall, Ruth M ^a   Stokes, H W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS ALCALIGENES; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS ALCALIGENES; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 1642555535     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26854-0     Document Type: Note

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