The horizontal flow of the plasmid resistome: Clues from inter-generic similarity networks

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3228-3242

  Fondi, Marco ^a   Fani, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PLASMID;

BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78650051417     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02295.x     Document Type: Article

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