Φm46.1, the main Streptococcus pyogenes element carrying mef(A) and tet(O) genes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 221-229

  Brenciani, Andrea ^a   Bacciaglia, Alessandro ^a   Vignaroli, Carla ^a   Pugnaloni, Armanda ^a   Varaldo, Pietro E ^a   Giovanetti, Eleonora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MEF GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TET GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRUS GENOME;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOPHAGE RECEPTOR; CIRCULAR DNA; MEFA PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, VIRAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPHAGES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 73849112321     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00499-09     Document Type: Article

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