Multiple copies of functional, Tet(M)-encoding Tn916-like elements in a clinical Enterococcus faecium isolate

Plasmid

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 150-155

  Rice, Louis B ^a,b   Carias, Lenore L ^b   Rudin, Susan ^b   Hutton, Rebecca A ^a   Marshall, Steven ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterococcus; Tn916; Transposons

Indexed keywords

MINOCYCLINE; PLASMID VECTOR; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TETM GENE; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON TN916;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 77956876358     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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