Major families of multiresistant plasmids from geographically and epidemiologically diverse staphylococci

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 581-591

  Shearer, Julia E S ^a,j   Wireman, Joy ^a   Hostetler, Jessica ^b   Forberger, Heather ^b   Borman, Jon ^b   Gill, John ^b   Sanchez, Susan ^a   Mankin, Alexander ^c   LaMarre, Jacqueline ^c   Lindsay, Jodi A ^d   Bayles, Kenneth ^e   Nicholson, Ainsley ^f   O'Brien, Frances ^g   Jensen, Slade O ^h,i   Firth, Neville ⁱ   Skurray, Ronald A ⁱ   Summers, Anne O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^j GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Mobile element genomics; Mrsa; Plasmid; Resistance

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 84883152814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.111.000760     Document Type: Article

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