Identification of a novel variant of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, type II.5, and its truncated form by insertion of putative conjugative transposon Tn6012

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2616-2619

  Han, Xiao ^a   Ito, Teruyo ^a   Takeuchi, Fumihiko ^a   Xiao, Xue Ma ^a   Takasu, Michihiko ^a   Uehara, Yoshio ^b   Oliveira, Duarte C ^c,d   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^d,e   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; JAPAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 67049173030     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00772-08     Document Type: Article

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