Mobile genetic elements of Staphylococcus aureus

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3057-3071

  Malachowa, Natalia ^a   Deleo, Frank R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Horizontal gene transfer; Mobile genetic elements; Staphylococcus aureus; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; PENICILLIN G; PLASMID DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CATABOLISM; GENE CASSETTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PLASMID; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; PATHOGENICITY; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77956631203     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-010-0389-4     Document Type: Review

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