A rob-like gene of Enterobacter cloacae affecting porin synthesis and susceptibility to multiple antibiotics

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2029-2033

  Lee, Eun Hee ^a   Collatz, Ekkehard ^a   Podglajen, Isabelle ^a,b   Gutmann, Laurent ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; IMIPENEM; LATAMOXEF; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA REPLICATION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029795521     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.9.2029     Document Type: Article

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