Sequence of pNL194, a 79.3-kilobase IncN plasmid carrying the bla VIM-1 metallo-β-lactamase gene in Klebsiella pneumoniae

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4497-4502

  Miriagou, V ^a   Papagiannitsis, C C ^a   Kotsakis, S D ^a   Loli, A ^a   Tzelepi, E ^a   Legakis, N J ^b   Tzouvelekis, L S ^c  

^a HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE VIM 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

EID: 77957350649     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00665-10     Document Type: Article

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