TISCpe8, an IS1595-family lincomycin resistance element located on a conjugative plasmid in Clostridium perfringens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6345-6351

  Lyras, Dena ^a   Adams, Vicki ^a   Ballard, Susan A ^a   Teng, Wee L ^a   Howarth, Pauline M ^a   Crellin, Paul K ^a   Bannam, Trudi L ^a   Songer, J Glenn ^b   Rood, Julian I ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; LINCOMYCIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 70350465106     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00668-09     Document Type: Article

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