Biology of the staphylococcal conjugative multiresistance plasmid pSK41

Plasmid

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-51

  Liu, Michael A ^a   Kwong, Stephen M ^a   Jensen, Slade O ^a   Brzoska, Anthony J ^a   Firth, Neville ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Partitioning; Plasmid replication; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BICOZAMYCIN; BLEOMYCIN; DISINFECTANT AGENT; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; NEOMYCIN; PAROMOMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMID PSK41; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84879191232     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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