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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2005, p. 2512-2514, Vol. 49, No. 6
0066-4804/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.49.6.2512-2514.2005
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Class I Integron with a Group II Intron Detected in an Escherichia coli Strain from a Free-Range Reindeer

Section of Bacteriology, National Veterinary Institute, 0033 Oslo, Norway

Received 25 October 2004/ Returned for modification 14 January 2005/ Accepted 17 February 2005

An Escherichia coli strain, isolated from wild reindeer in a remote mountain area, contained a class 1 integron with two unusual features: a group II intron and a cassette with homology to a superintegron cassette. Alignments indicate that attC sites of gene cassettes may be insertion sites for introns.

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