A transferable 20-kilobase multiple drug resistance-conferring R plasmid (pKL0018) from a fish pathogen (Lactococcus garvieae)ls highly homologous to a conjugative multiple drug resistance-conferring enterococcal plasmid

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3370-3372

  Maki, Takeshi ^a   Santos, Mudjekeewis D ^a   Kondo, Hidehiro ^a   Hirono, Ikuo ^a   Aoki, Takashi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSATIVE AGENTS; DRY SAUSAGE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LACTOCOCCUS; MULTIPLE DRUG RESISTANCE;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; DRUG RESISTANCE; FISH; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PATHOGEN; PLASMID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENTEROCOCCUS; FISH; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS GARVIEAE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; R PLASMID;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; LACTOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LACTOCOCCUS GARVIEAE;

EID: 66249107057     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00039-09     Document Type: Article

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