Acquired Antibiotic Resistance Genes: An Overview
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Acquired Antibiotic Resistance Genes: An Overview
In this review an overview is given on antibiotic resistance (AR) mechanisms with special attentions to the AR genes described so far preceded by a short introduction on the discovery and mode of action of the different classes of antibiotics. As this review is only dealing with acquired resistance, attention is also paid to mobile genetic elements such as plasmids, transposons, and integrons, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Microbiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1664-302X
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00203