SXT-related integrating conjugative element in new world Vibrio cholerae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 3054-3057

  Burrus, Vincent ^a   Quezada Calvillo, Roberto ^b   Marrero, Joeli ^a   Waldor, Matthew K ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GENES; MICROORGANISMS;

CONJUGATIVE ELEMENTS; V. CHOLERAE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMPICILLIN; KANAMYCIN; MITOMYCIN C; NALIDIXIC ACID; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; PATHOGEN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EVOLUTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INTEGRATING CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; SXT GENE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; INTEGRONS; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33646098932     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.4.3054-3057.2006     Document Type: Article

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