Two distinct genetic elements are responsible for erm(TR)-mediated erythromycin resistance in tetracycline-susceptible and tetracycline-resistant strains of Streptococcus pyogenes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2106-2112

  Brenciani, Andrea ^a   Tiberi, Erika ^a   Bacciaglia, Alessandro ^a   Petrelli, Dezemona ^b   Varaldo, Pietro E ^a   Giovanetti, Eleonora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; ERM GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUM GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TET GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 79955541124     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01378-10     Document Type: Article

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