Bacteriophages of Staphylococcus aureus efficiently package various bacterial genes and mobile genetic elements including SCCmec with different frequencies

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-73

  Mašlaňová, Ivana ^a   Doškař, Jiří ^a   Varga, Marian ^a   Kuntová, Lucie ^a   Mužík, Jan ^a   Malúšková, Denisa ^a   Růžičková, Vladislava ^a   Pantůček, Roman ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MECA PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PENICILLINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINASE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MIRIDAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84873292951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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