The human intestinal tract - a hotbed of resistance gene transfer? Part II1 1 Editor's Note: Part I of this article was published in the February 1, 2007 issue of CMN (Vol. 29, No. 3).

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 25-30

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

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CADMIUM; DEFENSIN; DNA FRAGMENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MUCIN; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLON; COLON FLORA; CONJUGATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTEGRON; INTESTINE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PLASMID; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 33846839358     PISSN: 01964399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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