An Enterobacter plasmid as a new genetic background for the transposon Tn1331

Infection and Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 209-213

  Alavi, Mohammad R ^a,b   Antonic, Vlado ^b   Ravizee, Adrien ^a   Weina, Peter J ^c   Izadjoo, Mina ^a,b   Stojadinovic, Alexander ^b  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterobacter; Transposon tn1331; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENTEROBACTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 84860494690     PISSN: 11786973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/IDR.S25408     Document Type: Article

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