Penicillin-binding proteins and the antibacterial effectiveness of β-lactam antibiotics

Reviews of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 1986, Pages 260-278

  Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE TRANSPEPTIDASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTIBIOTICS, LACTAM; BACTERIA; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CARRIER PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0022742030     PISSN: 01620886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/8.Supplement_3.S260     Document Type: Article

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