Characterization of pUO-StVR2, a virulence-resistance plasmid evolved from the pSLT virulence plasmid of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4514-4517

  Herrero, Ana ^a   Mendoza, M Carmen ^a   Rodicio, Rosaura ^b   Rodicio, M Rosario ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IRON TRANSPORT; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 57049160548     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00563-08     Document Type: Article

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