Multiple genetic elements carry the tetracycline resistance gene tet(W) in the animal pathogen Arcanobacterium pyogenes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3580-3587

  Billington, Stephen J ^a   Jost, B Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AADE GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; ARCANOBACTERIUM TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE ELEMENT 1; ARCANOBACTERIUM TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE ELEMENT 2; ARCANOBACTERIUM TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE ELEMENT 3; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TET W GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ACTINOMYCETACEAE; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 33750598302     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00562-06     Document Type: Article

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