Tetracycline resistance gene tet(W) in the pathogenic bacterium Clostridium difficile

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 770-773

  Spigaglia, Patrizia ^a   Barbanti, Fabrizio ^a   Mastrantonio, Paola ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM F8; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENE; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TET GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 38649121471     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00957-07     Document Type: Article

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