Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec-like element in Macrococcus caseolyticus

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1469-1475

  Tsubakishita, Sae ^a   Kuwahara Arai, Kyoko ^a   Baba, Tadashi ^a   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CASSETTE CHROMOSOME RECOMBINASE; CIRCULAR DNA; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; OXACILLIN; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; CCR GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MACROCOCCUS CASEOLYTICUS; MEC GENE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PBP GENE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; STAPHYLOCOCCACEAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 77950248542     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00575-09     Document Type: Article

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