Structure and specific detection of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type VII

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 377, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 752-756

  Higuchi, Wataru ^a   Takano, Tomomi ^a   Teng, Lee Jene ^b   Yamamoto, Tatsuo ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Evolution; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type VII (SCCmecVII); The cassette chromosome recombinase C gene (ccrC)

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETASE; TRANSFER RNA DIHYDROURIDINE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CCRC2 GENE; CCRC8 GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE VII; SWITZERLAND; TAIWAN;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 56049100898     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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