Multidrug efflux in intrinsic resistance to trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2288-2290

  Köhler, Thilo ^a   Kok, Menno ^a   Michea Hamzehpour, Mehri ^a   Plesiat, Patrick ^b   Gotoh, Naomasa ^c   Nishino, Takeshi ^c   Curty, Lasta Kocjancic ^a   Pechere, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

^c KYOTO PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; NORFLOXACIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEFLOXACIN; PLASMID DNA; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DRUG TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0029836682     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.10.2288     Document Type: Article

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