Precise excision and self-integration of a composite transposon as a model for spontaneous large-scale chromosome inversion/deletion of the Staphylococcus haemolyticus clinical strain JCSC1435

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2921-2925

  Watanabe, Shinya ^a   Ito, Teruyo ^a   Morimoto, Yuh ^a   Takeuchi, Fumihiko ^a   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRANSPOSON;

CEFTIZOXIME; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 34147188420     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01485-06     Document Type: Article

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