Different genetic elements carrying the tet(W) gene in two human clinical isolates of Streptococcus suis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 631-636

  Palmieri, Claudio ^a   Princivalli, Maria Stella ^a   Brenciani, Andrea ^a   Varaldo, Pietro E ^a   Facinelli, Bruna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; MITOMYCIN C; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOMIC ISLAND; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ITALY; MENINGITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PHAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 78751696048     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00965-10     Document Type: Article

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