Phage C2 mediates transduction of Tn6215, encoding erythromycin resistance, between Clostridium difficile strains

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Goh, Shan ^a,b,c   Hussain, Haitham ^b   Chang, Barbara J ^d   Emmett, Warren ^e   Riley, Thomas V ^d   Mullany, Peter ^b  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERM(B) GENE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHAGE PHI C2; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; CHEMISTRY; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYSOGENIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROPHAGE; VIROLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; HUMANS; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84891648569     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00840-13     Document Type: Article

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