16S rRNA methyltransferase RmtC in Salmonella enterica serovar Virchow

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 712-715

  Hopkins, Katie L ^a   Escudero, Jose A ^b   Hidalgo, Laura ^b   Gonzalez Zorn, Bruno ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; HABEKACIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NEOMYCIN; PROTEIN ARMA; PROTEIN NPMA; PROTEIN RMTA; PROTEIN RMTB; PROTEIN RMTC; PROTEIN RMTD; RNA 16S; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL DEATH; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE;

ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 77950658581     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1604.090736     Document Type: Article

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