Detection of new arr-4 and arr-5 gene cassettes in clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae strains from Brazil

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1865-1867

  Da Fonseca, Érica Lourenço ^a   Freitas, Fernanda Dos Santos ^a   De Amorim, José Carlos ^b   Vicente, Ana Carolina Paulo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARR 4 GENE; ARR 5 GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE CASSETTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 42949105444     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00017-08     Document Type: Article

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