A class 1 integron present in a human commensal has a hybrid transposition module compared to Tn402: Evidence of interaction with mobile DNA from natural environments

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5318-5327

  Labbate, M ^a   Chowdhury, P Roy ^a   Stokes, H W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMMENSAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYBRID; INTEGRON; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RES GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TNI GENE; TRANSPOSON; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FECES; GENE ORDER; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. VESICATORIA;

EID: 48149090737     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00199-08     Document Type: Article

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