linG, a new integron-associated gene cassette encoding a lincosamide nucleotidyltransferase [1]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3514-3515

  Levings, Renee S ^a   Hall, Ruth M ^b   Lightfoot, Diane ^c   Djordjevic, Steven P ^a  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE DERIVATIVE; LINCOSAMIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; MIKAMYCIN B; NALIDIXIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; SPECTINOMYCIN; SULFATHIAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE CASSETTE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTEGRON; LETTER; LING GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; LINCOSAMIDES; MACROLIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 33749519992     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00817-06     Document Type: Letter

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