Unconventional circularizable bacterial genetic structures carrying antibiotic resistance determinants

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2440-2441

  Palmieri, Claudio ^a   Mingoia, Marina ^a   Varaldo, Pietro E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BUTYRIVIBRIO FIBRISOLVENS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RECOMBINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TRANSPOSON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, CIRCULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84876241508     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02548-12     Document Type: Letter

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