Uncultured soil bacteria are a reservoir of new antibiotic resistance genes

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 981-989

  Riesenfeld, Christian S ^a   Goodman, Robert M ^a   Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE N(6') ACETYLTRANSFERASE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE N(6')-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TETRACYCLINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; UNITED STATES;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TETRACYCLINE; VARIATION (GENETICS); WISCONSIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 4344587758     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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