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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 1999, p. 1523-1524, Vol. 43, No. 6
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts
University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
021111; Department of Microbiology and
Immunology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
277102; Unité des Agents
Antibactériens, Institut Pasteur, Paris Cedex 15, France3; Lehrstuhl für
Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany4;
Department of Pathobiology, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington 981955; Department of
Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton,
Australia6; and Departments of
Biological Sciences and of Medical Microbiology and Immunology,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7,
Canada7
Received 24 February 1999/Accepted 24 March 1999
Letters of the English alphabet have heretofore been used to name
tetracycline resistance determinants. Since all 26 letters have now
been used, a nomenclature employing numerals is recommended for future
determinants, and one laboratory has offered to coordinate the
assignment of numerals.
0066-4804/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Nomenclature for New Tetracycline Resistance
Determinants
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Corresponding author. Mailing address for Stuart B. Levy: Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance, Tufts
University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111. Phone: (617) 636-6764. Fax: (617) 636-0458. E-mail:
slevy{at}opal.tufts.edu. E-mail for Laura M. McMurry:
lmcmur01{at}emerald.tufts.edu.
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