Horizontal transfer of multiple penicillin-binding protein genes, and capsular biosynthetic genes, in natural populations of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

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Published in Mol Microbiol on September 01, 1991

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T J Coffey1, C G Dowson, M Daniels, J Zhou, C Martin, B G Spratt, J M Musser

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1: Microbial Genetics Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

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