The blaimp-5-carrying integron in a clinical Acinetobacter baumannii strain is flanked by miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs)

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2667-2668

  Domingues, Sara ^a,b   Nielsen, Kaare M ^c,d   Da silva, Gabriela J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d Genøk Center for Biosafety   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Class 1 integrons; IMP; Mobile genetic elements

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBAPENEMASE; METALLOPROTEIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE CASSETTE; INTEGRON; INVERTED REPEAT; LETTER; MINIATURE INVERTED REPEAT TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; INTEGRONS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; METALLOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 80054697269     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr327     Document Type: Letter

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