Highly resistant Burkholderia pseudomallei small colony variants isolated in vitro and in experimental melioidosis

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 91-97

  Häaßler, Susanne ^a   Rohde, Manfred ^b   Steinmetz, Ivo ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burkholderia pseudomallei; Small colony variants

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; MEROPENEM; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIVER; MELIOIDOSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERTANT; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; LIVER; MELIOIDOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECURRENCE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0006249173     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004300050110     Document Type: Article

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