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Nomenclature for new tetracycline resistance determinants
S B Levy1, L M McMurry, T M Barbosa
1Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA. slevy@opal.tufts.edu
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
|May 29, 1999
Abstract:
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.