CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS PLASMID ENCODING A MULTIDRUG EFFLUX SYSTEM

Authors
PAULSEN IT BROWN MH SKURRAY RA
Citation
It. Paulsen et al., CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS PLASMID ENCODING A MULTIDRUG EFFLUX SYSTEM, Journal of bacteriology, 180(13), 1998, pp. 3477-3479
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of bacteriology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00219193
Volume
180
Issue
13
Year of publication
1998
Pages
3477 - 3479
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-9193(1998)180:13<3477:COTEKS>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
The staphylococcal qacB-encoding multidrug resistance plasmid pSK156, isolated from a clinical strain dating from 1951, was characterized. C omparison of the regions flanking qacB with other qacB and qacB-encodi ng plasmids provided insights into the evolution and dissemination of these multidrug efflux genes and led to the detection of the earliest known copy of the insertion sequence IS257.