Secondary chromosomal attachment site and tandem integration of the mobilizable Salmonella genomic island 1.

BACKGROUND: The Salmonella genomic island 1 is an integrative mobilizable element (IME) originally identified in epidemic multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) DT104. SGI1 contains a complex integron, which confers various multidrug resistance phenotypes due to...

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Main Authors: Benoît Doublet, George R Golding, Michael R Mulvey, Axel Cloeckaert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2297512?pdf=render