Mercury Resistance Determinants Related to Tn 21 , Tn 1696 , and Tn 5053 in Enterobacteria from the Preantibiotic Era
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- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 47 (3) , 1115-1119
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.47.3.1115-1119.2003
Abstract
Three mer transposons from the Murray collection of preantibiotic enterobacteria show >99% sequence identity to current isolates. Tn 5073 is most closely related to Tn 5036 and Tn 1696 , and Tn 5074 is most closely related to Tn 5053 . Tn 5075 is most closely related to Tn 21 but lacks integron In2 and is flanked by insertion elements.Keywords
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