The development of Clostridium difficile genetic systems

Anaerobe

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 75-84

  Minton, Nigel ^a   Carter, Glen ^a   Herbert, Mike ^b   O'Keeffe, Triona ^b   Purdy, Des ^b   Elmore, Mike ^b   Ostrowski, Anna ^b   Pennington, Oliver ^a   Davis, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Conjugation; Replicon; Restriction modification

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DNA FRAGMENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PHEROMONE; PLASMID DNA; POLYPEPTIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BINDING SITE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSSING OVER; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ELECTROPORATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; KNOCKOUT GENE; LACTOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROPHAGE; REPLICON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 1942518739     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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