Heterogeneity of Tn5253-like composite elements in clinical Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1453-1459

  Mingoia, Marina ^a   Tili, Emily ^a   Manso, Esther ^b   Varaldo, Pietro E ^a   Montanari, Maria Pia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b Department of Maxillofacial Surgery   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; INTEGRASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON;

CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 79953187260     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01087-10     Document Type: Article

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