A novel transposon, Tn 6009, composed of a Tn 916 element linked with a Staphylococcus aureus mer operon

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 674-680

  Soge, Olusegun O ^a   Beck, Nicola K ^a   White, Teresa M ^a   No, David B ^a   Roberts, Marilyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugative transposons; S. aureus; Tet(M)

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; MERCURY; NALIDIXIC ACID; POLYMYXIN B; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LYASE; MERB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MERCURY (II) REDUCTASE; MERR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TET M RESISTANCE PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOUTH FLORA; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERRATIA LIQUEFACIENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSPOSON; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUTH; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; URINE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LYASES; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUTH; NIGERIA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; URINE;

EID: 52949103738     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn255     Document Type: Article

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