ICESp1116, the genetic element responsible for erm(B)-mediated, inducible resistance to erythromycin in Streptococcus pyogenes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6425-6429

  Brenciani, Andrea ^a   Tiberi, Erika ^a   Morici, Eleonora ^a   Oryaşin, Erman ^b   Giovanetti, Eleonora ^a   Varaldo, Pietro E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN ERM B; PROTEIN TET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENOTYPE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS GALLOLYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 84869217597     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01494-12     Document Type: Article

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