Detection of gene cassettes in Tn402-like class 1 integrons [7]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3467-3468

  Post, Virginia ^a   Recchia, Gavin D ^b   Hall, Ruth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Davies Collison Cave   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

AMPLICON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 35948962258     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00220-07     Document Type: Letter

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