Small plasmids harboring qnrB19: A model for plasmid evolution mediated by site-specific recombination at oriT and Xer sites

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1821-1827

  Tran, Tung ^a,b   Andres, Patricia ^c   Petroni, Alejandro ^c   Soler Bistué, Alfonso ^d,e   Albornoz, Ezequiel ^c   Zorreguieta, Angeles ^d   Reyes Lamothe, Rodrigo ^b   Sherratt, David J ^b   Corso, Alejandra ^c   Tolmaskya, Marcelo E ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNRB19 GENE; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ARGENTINA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84858636114     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.06036-11     Document Type: Article

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