Transduction of the Streptococcus pyogenes bacteriophage Φm46.1, carrying resistance genes mef(a) and tet(o), to other streptococcus species

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Giovanetti, Eleonora ^a   Brenciani, Andrea ^a   Morroni, Gianluca ^a   Tiberi, Erika ^a   Pasquaroli, Sonia ^a   Mingoia, Marina ^a   Varaldo, Pietro E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

bacteriophages; Chromosomal integration; Fitness cost; Mef(A); Streptococcus species; tet(O); transduction; M46.1

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN; DNA 16S; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MITOMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LYSOGENIZATION; MEF(A) GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TET(O) GENE;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 84937695053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00746     Document Type: Article

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