Recombination and selection can remove blaTEM alleles from bacterial populations

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3408-3410

  Mroczkowska, Joanna E ^a   Barlow, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLA TEM GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CEFTAZIDIME; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 50949107547     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00501-08     Document Type: Article

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