Complete nucleotide sequence of KPC-3-encoding plasmid pKpQIL in the epidemic Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4493-4496

  Leavitt, Azita ^a   Chmelnitsky, Inna ^a   Carmeli, Yehuda ^a   Navon Venezia, Shiri ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBAPENEM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA SEQUENCE; ISRAEL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

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

EID: 77957350912     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00175-10     Document Type: Article

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