Tn6060, a transposon from a genomic island in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolate that includes two class 1 integrons

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5294-5296

  Chowdhury, Piklu Roy ^a   Merlino, John ^b   Labbate, Maurizio ^a   Cheong, Elaine Y L ^b   Gottlieb, Thomas ^b   Stokes, H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ANZAC Research Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBAPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOMIC ISLAND; INTEGRON; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 71249117862     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00687-09     Document Type: Article

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