Conjugative plasmids of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Pachulec, Emilia ^a,b   van der Does, Chris ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; EPSILON TOXIN; OXACILLIN; PROTEIN INCP1 ALPHA; PROTEIN INCP1 BETA; PROTEIN INCP1 EPSILON; PROTEIN INCP1 GAMMA; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZETA TOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENETICS; HUMAN;

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POSIBACTERIA;

ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PLASMIDS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 77956320511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009962     Document Type: Article

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