Gene cassettes and cassette arrays in mobile resistance integrons: Review article

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 757-784

  Partridge, Sally R ^a,b   Tsafnat, Guy ^c   Coiera, Enrico ^c   Iredell, Jonathan R ^b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bioinformatics; Computer aided discovery; Gene cassette; Integron; Nomenclature

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ATTI1 GENE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENBANK; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTEGRON; INTI1 GENE; INTI2 GENE; INTI3 GENE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTEGRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 66749102064     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2009.00175.x     Document Type: Review

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