Erratum (DOI:10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2007.01.001);The human intestinal tract - a hotbed of resistance gene transfer? Part I1 1 Editor's Note: Part II of this article will be published in the February 15, 2007 issue of CMN (Vol. 29, No. 4).

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 17-21

  Salyers, Abigail A ^a   Moon, Kyung ^a   Schlessinger, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTEROIDES; COLON; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 33846247527     PISSN: 01964399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2007.01.003     Document Type: Erratum

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