The order Bacillales hosts functional homologs of the worrisome cfr antibiotic resistance gene

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3563-3567

  Hansen, Lykke H ^a   Planellas, Mercè H ^a   Long, Katherine S ^b   Vester, Birte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN; FLORFENICOL; LINCOSAMIDE; LINEZOLID; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MIKAMYCIN B; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PLEUROMUTILIN; RNA 23S; TIAMULIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLALES; BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; BACILLUS CLAUSII; BACTERIAL GENE; BREVIBACILLUS BREVIS; CFR GENE; CLBA GENE; CLBB GENE; CLBC GENE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOST; METHYLATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIBOSOME; WHOLE CELL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLALES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DITERPENES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LINCOSAMIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OXAZOLIDINONES; STREPTOGRAMIN A;

EID: 84862550547     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00673-12     Document Type: Article

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